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Neighbours of Mine choose

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[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 243: Yes, it is a bit crocky.
at crocky, adj.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 148: ’Arry, come and ’ave a look at Bill’s new donah!
at dona, n.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 18: The ‘fakement’— that’s what he called the process he was employing— was resorted to, he informed me with a grin, to ‘do the buffer’.
at fakement, n.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 64: It was a swagger turn-out.
at turn-out, n.2
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 216: I’m going to buy some cricket things with my half-quid.
at half-a-quid (n.) under quid, n.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 38: Now, I suppose, I shall be sent trotting all over the place with your rotten bits of sticks and rubbishy plated stuff.
at rubbish, adj.
[UK] ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 216: ‘What on earth is half-a-quid?’ ‘Half-a-thick — I mean sovereign,’ said the youth.
at half-thick (’un) (n.) under thick ’un, n.
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