1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 19: Poor young swine [...] He doesn’t know his arse from his elbow.at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 31: Did you ever meet [...] Chunky, the man with the pineapple ballocks.at ballocks, n.
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 20: Knowing, of course [...] that the old bitch hadn’t much longer to go and one might as well, my dear, see the whole bloody business through.at bitch, n.1
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 29: Not [...] knocking it back? Not getting stoned or blind or anything?at blind, adj.1
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 30: ‘Those who went down,’ he sniggered. ‘Dear old Walt [i.e. Whitman] knew all about going down’.at go down, v.
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 20: You must accompany me to the Gut sometime, dear [...] What the sailors call Strait Street.at gut, n.
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 9: Poor old bugger [...] poor senile decrepit lonely old impotent sod.at sod, n.1
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 29: Not [...] knocking it back? Not getting stoned or blind or anything?at stoned, adj.
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 20: ‘Don’t be silly, Geoffrey. You forget certain facts of my biography [...] ’ ‘Ah, getting all stuffy now, are we?’.at stuffy, adj.1
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 28: I saw Geoffrey down a whisky mac in one [...] God knew how much tanking up he had done before leaving home.at tank (up), v.
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 547: ‘There are some things a man can’t do. I’ll have to look around.’ ‘Don’t talk wet,’ I said.at talk wet (v.) under wet, adv.
1980 A. Burgess Earthly Powers 21: Have we not here the most delicious classical bit of psychowhatsit of everyday life.at whatsit, n.