1996 A. Bennett diary in Untold Stories (2006) 186: Some dinky warders, in short-sleeved shirts, dark ties and epaulettes.at dinky, adj.1
1997 A. Bennett diary in Untold Stories (2006) 210: Two droll-looking dikey, long-nosed ladies.at dykey, adj.
2001 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
2001 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.
2005 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
2005 A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 118: She is a real card is Lily. We always have a laugh.at card, n.2
2005 (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.
2005 (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
2005 (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
2005 A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 132: I realise that [...] what they were doing was tossing off.at toss (off), v.
2005 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.
2005 (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.
2005 (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.
2005 A. Bennett Untold Stories (2006) 67: The aunties’ splashy behaviour [...] became a family joke.at splashy, adj.
2005 (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.