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[US] Sun. Flash 19 Sept. 4/2: The Irish have a dish they call ‘potatoes and point,’ because the bogtrotters eat the fruit and point at the bacon.
at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
[US] Sun. Flash 17 Oct. 2: She decoys the cullies home and gets them to bed and Jem removes and examines their clothes by the sliding pannel.
at cully, n.1
[US] Sun. Flash 17 Oct. n.p.: A stunted black waiter of about three feet high [...] one of the ugliest specimens of dingy humanity that Amanda had ever beheld.
at dingy, adj.1
[US] Sun. Flash 26 Sept. 2/5: Mlle. Romanini has been showing her agility to a small sprinkling of skivers in the pit.
at skiver, n.
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