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Kitty and Virgil choose

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[UK] W. Deeping Kitty in DSUE (1984).
at breezy bertie (n.) under breezy, adj.1
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 41: Derek’s not what he seems. I know he gives the impression that he’s queer as a chorus boy’s backside, but he isn’t.
at ...a chorus boy’s backside under queer as..., adj.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 44: Joan had this thing about the English aristocracy, thought the sun shone out of their arses.
at think the sun shines out of someone’s ass under ass, n.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 41: I hope you’re not thinking [...] I’ve started playing funny buggers in my dotage. Because I haven’t.
at play silly buggers (v.) under bugger, n.1
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 21: The rantings and ravings of that tiresome old cove.
at cove, n.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 20: It wore itself to a frazzle.
at wear to a frazzle (v.) under frazzle, n.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 245: They put the frighteners on him and he squealed.
at put the frighteners on (v.) under frightener, n.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 20: When we say a thing is frazzled, we means it’s worn-out [...] Kaput, it’s kaput.
at kaput, adj.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 188: She is half his age. He claims he loves her [...] She’s juicier meat is the reason.
at meat, n.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 54: It’s one of the last women [...] I involved myself with – the dreaded ST, who killed off the old Adam in Felix Crozier after a single night of love.
at old adam (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 150: She [...] played up like the very devil when she was ten.
at play up, v.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 245: Are you shitting your pants yet?
at shit (in) one’s pants (v.) under shit, v.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 146: You are from that shit-hole Romania?
at shithole, n.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 127: I must tell you how the thickhead hunted a bear.
at thickhead, n.
[UK] P. Bailey Kitty and Virgil (1999) 44: Joan had this thing about the English aristocracy, thought the sun shone out of their arses.
at have a thing about (v.) under thing, n.
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