2002 ‘Barbara Vine’ Blood Doctor (2003) 165: ‘Queer as a coot,’ he says. ‘But of course you know that.’.at ...a coot under queer as..., adj.
2002 ‘Barbara Vine’ Blood Doctor (2003) 145: It was very marked in the eighteen eighties. And the divide between the children one’s wife had and the by-blows or wrong side of the blanket children was very wide.at by-blow, n.
2002 ‘Barbara Vine’ Blood Doctor (2003) 187: We’ll still be able to come and eat and drink – won’t we? Not on your nelly, says Lachlan.at not on your nellie, phr.
2002 ‘Barbara Vine’ Blood Doctor (2003) 388: Another two and a half K up the spout.at up the spout under spout, n.2