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The Road to Nab End choose

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[UK] (con. 1910s) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 39: Porridge was followed by chunks of home-made bread, covered with Maggy Ann.
at maggy ann, n.
[UK] (con. 1900) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 104: Bellyachers were silenced.
at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
[UK] (con. 1920s) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 104: Were you bucked by the visit?
at bucked, adj.2
[UK] (con. 1920s) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 216: I don’t know what she would have said if I’d called her a ‘Cat-licker.’.
at cat-licker, n.
[UK] (con. 1920s) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 55: ‘Tha’re a grand lad,’ they said giving me a tanner (6d.) or a dodger (3d.).
at dodger, n.5
[UK] (con. 1920) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 46: They had taken him for a ‘knobstick’ (strike breaker) and almost killed him.
at knobstick, n.
[UK] (con. 1920s) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 204: I never knew whether or not I was going to get a ‘lander’ to the head from him.
at land, v.
[UK] (con. 1920s) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 101: ‘It’s better for the likes of us at t’ other side,’ he said to me one day. I sensed that he had made a mistake in leaving America.
at other side (n.) under other, adj.
[UK] (con. 1925) W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 198: Gordon considered the sideshows of freaks and caged wild animals a real ‘swiz’ so we avoided them.
at swiz, n.2
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