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[UK] G. Willans Down with Skool in Complete Molesworth (1958) 8: A chiz is a swiz or swindle as any fule kno. [Ibid.] 10: He said he could do it any time pappy but did not feel like it toda chiz.
at chiz, n.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 250: Wakey-wakey she bellow, sho a leg rise and shine.
at rise and shine!, excl.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 90: They lose their tempers and get into a terrific bate.
at bait, n.2
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 240: Headmaster is in a good bate.
at bait, n.2
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 259: Masters i mean. Beaks.
at beak, n.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 279: You do not need to [...] ask what the blazes the two cissies are doing.
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 50: The plain blip for numskulls.
at blip, n.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 36: In all the bulets, wams, bonks and xplosions no english master would escape his fate.
at bonk, n.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 131: It is just all BOSH.
at bosh, n.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 230: (he gives a contemptuous look over his shoulder at the sheepish colection of branes [...] behind him).
at brain, n.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 250: Being late for brekker.
at brekker, n.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 230: Some boy [...] bunged up the drane with a pair of socks.
at bung up, v.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 234: O.K. Work him over, butch.
at butch, n.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 53: There is no need [...] to buzz a brick at it.
at buzz, v.3
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 299: You catch the old works bus and clock-in, put on your overalls, chaff the gurls.
at chaff, v.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 12: He [...] cheeks everybode.
at cheek, v.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 354: Cheese it, Molesworth.
at cheese it!, excl.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 149: Look at the clot-faced wet.
at clot, n.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 248: I kno he was cobbed with 3 newts and a titmouse in his gym shirt.
at cop, v.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 248: ‘Rats, you crumpet,’ sa gillibrand.
at crumpet, n.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 35: He is a sissy, and not worth a d. [Ibid.] 127: If you have the necessary d’s.
at d, n.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 393: The dasher of the palais.
at dasher, n.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 18: Tucking M.C.C. tie over his clean dicky.
at dicky, n.1
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 29: He then go ah-ah-ah-ah-ah with machine guns and sixteen chickens and skool dog bite the dust.
at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 231: The clot hav not got an earthly [...] he simply doesn’t know.
at earthly, n.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 154: Ho fie lo egad and away for it is the BELL.
at egad!, excl.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 62: We shall all be a google eyed ant society.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 370: She is absolutely fizzing more lovely ever than prudence entwistle the under matron.
at fizzing, adj.
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 319: Kicking off the mud from my footer boots.
at footer, n.2
[UK] Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 27: You could think they would put a gat or a germ gun to their heads.
at gat, n.1
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