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(con. 1934) Beyond Nab End 77: Pa Hargreaves calling, ‘’Arf a mo. ’Arf a mo,’ and the dog barking, and Ma Hargreaves yelling.at half a mo, phr.
(con. 1934) Beyond Nab End 77: Pa Hargreaves calling, ‘’Arf a mo. ’Arf a mo,’ and the dog barking, and Ma Hargreaves yelling. (con. 1934) Beyond Nab End 77: Sunday dinner, which was eaten at noon when the men came back from the ‘rub-a-dub’ (pub).at rub-a-dub, n.2
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 11: My ‘pot and pan’ works on the river.at pot and pan, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 28: I’d watch children skip and jump [...] ‘Punch and Judies (school inspectors) catches ’em and makes ’em go to school,’ said Ben.at punch and judy, n.2
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 4: A group of night-riders shovelling bangers and onions with HP sauce.at banger, n.3
(con. 1934) Beyond Nab End 76: The rest played shove-ha’penny or Wilkie Bards (cards).at Wilkie Bards, n.
(con. 1933) Beyond Nab End 66: The Tinkers thought I’d gone ‘batchy’.at batchy, adj.
(con. 1940) Beyond Nab End 278: ‘He’s belly-up,’ said Mum. ‘Lost ’is own and ’is wife’s money.’.at belly up, adj.2
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 30: Pearly Lilly [...] plying her profession as a ‘bride’ among the nobs of the West End.at bride, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 36: I’ve landed a job as a weaver in a fly-by-night place in west London.at fly-by-night, adj.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 12: ‘Ark at ’im; off ’is chump ’e is.at off one’s chump under chump, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 32: A man could hire a ‘cock sparrow’ and push a barrow selling fruit and vegetables.at cock sparrow, n.
(con. 1940) Beyond Nab End 288: Recruits from Cockneyland came back from leave mourning their dead.at Cockneyland (n.) under Cockney, adj.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 33: ‘Caw!’ he said.at cor!, excl.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 29: The old man and two of his older sons had done time for what Ben called ‘dippin’ or ‘shoot-flyin’.at dipping, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 4: Rock buns and ‘doorstep’ ham sandwiches were stacked on glass trays.at doorstep, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 29: The old man and two of his older sons had done time for what Ben called ‘dippin’ or ‘shoot-flyin’.at shoot-flying, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 29: Whenever a ‘grasshopper’ (a policeman) went past my window, the odds were he was on his way to the Nicholls.at grasshopper, n.2
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 32: ‘Griddling’ at street corners was open to anyone with a good voice.at griddle, v.
(con. 1934) Beyond Nab End 79: He was the only one who had a regular ‘Judy’.at judy, n.1
(con. 1934) Beyond Nab End 86: He’d given up his job as a mug-faker.at mugfaker (n.) under mug, n.1
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 32: A man could [...] buy a box of chalks and become a ‘screever’.at screever, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 55: Some ‘sods’ had too many blowholes, cracks, lumps and swells.at sod, n.1
(con. 1934) Beyond Nab End 74: Got it for a song in Petticoat Lane.at song, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 29: Sustained by ‘the spot of tiddly’, Mrs Wheeler was convinced she would ‘larst a loiftoim.’.at tiddly, n.
(con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 20: ‘Worrygut!’ Charlie grinned.at worryguts (n.) under worry, n.
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