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[UK] Times Literary Supplement 4 June 267/2: [European diplomacy] refused to be blandandered by King Nichola.
at blandander, v.
[UK] Times Literary Supplement 1 Oct. 738/1: A fear of its [i.e. Melbourne’s] writers [...] echoed the nationalist emotion, but in abstract terms that lacked the appeal of the Sydney-siders.
at Sydneysider, n.
[UK] Times Literary Supplement 14 Feb. 86/1: By contrast everyone born since 1908 seems squat, indigent, muffish.
at muffish (adj.) under muff, n.2
[UK] Times Literary Supplement 16 Oct. n.p.: A man in an Australian pub will offer a sentimental, meaning a smoke or cigarette, though the verses of A Sentimental Bloke are probably not now much read.
at sentimental, n.
[UK] Times Literary Supplement 4 Aug. 916: The two big bookstalls in Trastevere go in for porn and fladge.
at fladge, n.
[UK] Times Literary Supplement 31 July 882/2: Traditional, blokey, commonsensical structuralists (not to be confused with our latter day structuralistes).
at blokey (adj.) under bloke, n.
[UK] (ref. to 1930s) Times Literary Supplement 3 July 745/1: We know how much Auden hated wet-legs, how constantly he repeated his many litanies of his own good fortune .
at wet leg (n.) under wet, adj.1
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