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[UK] A. Bennett diary in Untold Stories (2006) 186: Some dinky warders, in short-sleeved shirts, dark ties and epaulettes.
at dinky, adj.1
[UK] A. Bennett diary in Untold Stories (2006) 210: Two droll-looking dikey, long-nosed ladies.
at dykey, adj.
[UK] A. Bennett diary in Untold Stories (2006) 269: Hello, you old cunt.
at cunt, n.
[UK] A. Bennett diary in Untold Stories (2006) 298: It’s a dog owner whose social responsibility stretches to picking up the mess but not to putting it in their own bin.
at mess, n.2
[UK] A. Bennett diary in Untold Stories (2006) 298: Shit I think of as the self-contained shapes; shite as what’s smeared round the sides of the bin.
at shite, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 132: Thomson and Briggs [...] shirts hanging out and still half-dressed, and so get bollocked by Mr King.
at ballock, v.2
[UK] A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 118: She is a real card is Lily. We always have a laugh.
at card, n.2
[UK] (ref. to 1950s) A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 67: The bucket under the sink for the tea leaves and slops and (when caught short) pee.
at caught short, adj.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 76: Dad looking long-suffering in the back row. [...] ‘Don’t pull your jib, Dad,’ Mam mutters, ‘try and look natural.’.
at jib, n.1
[UK] (ref. to 1950s) A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 67: The outside lav and the sheaf of newspapers hung behind the lave door.
at lav, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 132: I realise that [...] what they were doing was tossing off.
at toss (off), v.
[UK] A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 135: I lie on the bed in the boarding house back bedroom and pull myself off.
at pull off (v.) under pull, v.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 41: ‘Well,’ said Mam resignedly, ‘it doesn’t do for us. Our Kathleen used to put it in the trifle and it always rifted up on me.’.
at rift, n.
[UK] (ref. to 1950s) A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 25: If Dad had his hair cut too short he was thought to look ‘right common’.
at right, adv.
[UK] A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 67: The aunties’ splashy behaviour [...] became a family joke.
at splashy, adj.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 72: ‘It’s a tip-top place,’ said Auntie Myra. ‘The surgeon looking after him is one of the first in the country.’.
at tip-top, adj.
[UK] A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 46: Again I did not twig. ‘Why?’.
at twig, v.2
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