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[UK] J. Betjeman ‘The City’ in Coll. Poems (1970) 7: Young men who wear on office stools / The ties of minor public schools, / Each learning how to be a sinner / And tell ‘a good one’ after dinner.
at good one, n.
[UK] J. Betjeman ‘Slough’ in Coll. Poems (1970) 23: They often go To Maidenhead And talk of sports and makes of cars In various bogus Tudor bars.
at bogus, adj.
[UK] J. Betjeman ‘Slough’ in Coll. Poems (1958) 21: Come, bombs, and blow to smithereens / Those air-conditioned, bright canteens.
at smithereens, n.
[UK] J. Betjeman ‘Group Life: Letchworth’ in Coll. Poems (1970) 69: What a lot my dicky chicky / Tiny tots have done.
at tot, n.1
[UK] J. Betjeman ‘Beside the Seaside’ in Coll. Poems (1958) 152: ‘Farewell,’ ‘So long,’ ‘Bunghosky,’ ‘Cheeribye’.
at bung ho!, excl.
[UK] J. Betjeman ‘Sun and Fun’ in Coll. Poems (1970) 217: But I’m dying now and done for, / What on earth was all the fun for?
at done for, adj.
[UK] J. Betjeman ‘Original Sin on the Sussex Coast’ in Coll. Poems (1970) 219: When the Post-Toasties mixed with Golden Shred / Make for the kiddies such a scrumptious feast.
at scrumptious, adj.
[UK] J. Betjeman ‘Hunter Trials’ in Coll. Poems (1959) 237: Miss Blewitt says Monica threw it, / But Monica says it was Joan, / And Joan’s very thick with Miss Blewitt, / So Monica’s sulking alone.
at thick, adj.
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