1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 85: I [...] gave her the soundest biffing with my hands that she had so far received from me.at biff, n.1
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 115: All this bosh about not upsetting people!at bosh, n.1
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 34: She might skip off, and I don’t see myself chasing after her. I’m too fat for such capers.at caper, n.2
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 27: Millie at once chipped in with: ‘That’s enough from you!’.at chip in, v.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 121: You get thinking in a cowson of a place like this.at cowson, n.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 129: That’s all right. I know ’im. ’E’s cushy.at cushy, adj.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 60: ‘That’d be a how-d’you-do!’ Millie cackled.at how-do-you-do, n.1
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 110: She was all dolled up [...] She was wearing a two-piece costume.at dolled up, adj.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 22: I ’ad a dog once what ate up all the fag-ends in the street.at fag end, n.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 41: This is wonderful news! How did you fix it?at fix, v.1
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 58: Should I disillusion the great gaby?at gaby, n.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 17: The ‘beaks’ were inclined to be ‘’ot’ on what he’d done.at hot on, adj.1
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 17: It seemed that he could have a ‘mouthpiece’ – a poor prisoner’s defence counsel.at mouthpiece, n.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 127: I can’t just go and take ’im away from them. They’re struck on ’im now.at struck on, adj.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 121: They’d shit ’emselves, the bastards, before they’d do anything for you!at shit oneself, v.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 123: ‘Did he get into trouble?’ ‘No, but ’e didn’t half piss ‘isself.’.at piss oneself, v.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 29: You ought to see them laying on the rug of an evening, it’s a picture.at picture, n.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 143: I’d ’ave took ’er out first thing in the morning for ’er piddles.at piddle, n.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 60: Don’t let ’im piddle on ’em, for Gawd’s sake!at piddle, v.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 24: And put that in your pipe and smoke it, I thought as I set the receiver down.at put that in your pipe (and smoke it)! (excl.) under pipe, n.1
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 147: Ah-h, I feel like getting pissed.at pissed, adj.1
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 39: He says she thinks the world of me now, the little rat.at rat, n.1
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 36: He says other letters often get through without the screws rumbling.at rumble, v.2
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 127: I put down a deposit on ’er, and then I screwed the first ’ouse to get the rest.at screw, v.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 94: What are you sticking out your eyes at? A skirt, I suppose.at skirt, n.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 110: She was all dolled up, her face thick with slap.at slap, n.2
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 130: There was no doubt of it, he had terribly missed his smokes.at smoke, n.
1960 J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 101: ‘He’s soppy about her.’ ‘Soppy?’ ‘You know, sentimental.’.at soppy on (adj.) under soppy, adj.