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[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 45: It’ll mean baching. Are you handy with the frying-pan?
at bach (it), v.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 125: I knew from when you first came that we’d cobber up beaut.
at beaut, adv.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 143: Melva, standing quivering-anxious on the brink of the pool then splatting bellyflop with an incredible smack.
at bellyflop, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 106: I’ll leave you two to clear up this bun fight.
at bunfight (n.) under bun, n.3
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 199: The first piece she read was about somebody being fined for carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of sixteen [...] She didn’t know exactly what it was, but she knew that a ‘carner’ was a person who did it.
at carner, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 125: I knew from when you first came that we’d cobber up beaut.
at cobber (up), v.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 140: He’s a corker athlete all round.
at corking, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 225: She woke up with the most cracking headache she had ever had.
at cracking, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 48: They call it ‘Twist’ [...] I’d call it, ‘Rattle your dags’!
at rattle one’s dags (v.) under dags, n.2
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 124: If I could wring my hands on the bugger who introduced that dog-piss hemlock, I’d wring his neck.
at dog-piss, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 243: To them Waitapa was an Endsville in the Wop-wops.
at Endsville, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 200: This husky great Hori started tumbling me about a fair treat.
at fair treat, a (adv.) under fair, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 110: She’s a fair cow of a day.
at fair cow (n.) under fair, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 11: How do you like our Five O’clock swill? Not like the old country. All evening to drink your pint.
at five to six rush (n.) under five, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 186: Oh, glamour queen, Melva!
at glamour boy (n.) under glamour, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 12: Warwick seemed impatient to keep Graham drinking. [...] Graham gurked, and his gurk felt a bit full.
at gurk, v.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 221: You gutsy thing, Melva—you’ve eated all Dad’s!
at gutsy, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 53: There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of shifting him.
at not have a snowball’s chance (in hell) under hell, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 200: This husky great Hori started tumbling me about a fair treat.
at hori, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 16: He had a vague image of [...] Mrs. Johnson-McDonald telling him to stuff his excuses up his arse.
at stick it up your arse! (excl.) under stick it!, excl.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 126: He’s missed out, he’s missed the bus.
at miss the bus (v.) under miss, v.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 106: We’ll see some horticulture in Waitapa, make no mistake!
at and no mistake under mistake, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 181: Just a mo.
at mo, n.1
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 126: If he’s not a pansy, then he’s queer in some way or other.
at pansy, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 41: He felt her right pap squidged against him.
at paps, n.1
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 124: If you prefer your London, go back and get lost in your peasoup fog.
at peasouper, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 204: I’m peckish myself.
at peckish, adj.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 137: I brought some scrog and a thermos of hot coffee.
at scrog, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 150: Considering what a sex-pole he is, Carner has played it pretty cool.
at sex-pole (n.) under sex, n.
[UK] N. Armfelt Catching Up 181: For seven days [...] Carner kept clear of his sex-kitten.
at sex kitten (n.) under sex, n.
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