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A Clockwork Orange choose

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[UK] A. Burgess ‘Gloss. of NADSAT Language’ in Clockwork Orange n.p.: Others [i.e. coinages] are produced simply by schoolboy transformations: ‘appy polly loggy’ (apology), ‘baddiwad’ (bad), ‘eggiweg’ (egg), ‘skolliwoll’ (school), and so forth.
at baddiwad, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess ‘Gloss. of NADSAT Language’ in Clockwork Orange n.p.: Bezoomy Mad Russian: byezoomiyi/mad, insane.
at bezoomy, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess Clockwork Orange 2: There were a few starry letters, some of them dating right back to 1960, with ‘My dearest dearest’ in them and all that chepooka, and a keyring and a starry leaky pen.
at chepooka, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Clockwork Orange 16: Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.
at yarbles, n.
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