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[UK] 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
[UK] J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 115: All this bosh about not upsetting people!
at bosh, n.1
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 129: That’s all right. I know ’im. ’E’s cushy.
at cushy, adj.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 10: She’s expectin’.
at expecting, adj.
[UK] J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 41: This is wonderful news! How did you fix it?
at fix, v.1
[UK] J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 58: Should I disillusion the great gaby?
at gaby, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 147: Ah-h, I feel like getting pissed.
at pissed, adj.1
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 147: Ah, sod ’er!
at sod, v.
[UK] 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.
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