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The Shipbuilders choose

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[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 87: ‘Hullo,’ he cried. ‘Havin’ a drop of tea for your dirty mouth, you drunken old b?’.
at b, n.1
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 149: ‘Baloney!’ he exploded.
at baloney, n.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 149: Did it ever occur to you that Cosh Tanelli’s a Pape and the old man on the bench is a Billy Boy, blue and orange as they make them?
at Billy, n.1
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 71: Good old Alan! [...] Ye’ve got the suckers bitched!
at bitch, v.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 182: He roared like any happy boy, slapping his knee, [...] crying repeatedly: ‘Christ! I’ll bust my boiler if he doesna’ stop.’.
at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 29: I’ll clatter ye one of these days, ye great , useless keelie.
at clatter, v.2
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 60: Holy crivvens, I nearly broke my flakin’ back on yer pipe line! [...] Crivvens, boy, it’s great to see one of the old crush!
at crivens!, excl.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 163: ‘My hat, Danny!’ he cried.
at my hat!, excl.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 79: ‘Holy Mike!’ sighed Jim.
at holy Moses! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 20: ‘Hullo! [...] The hump again?’ ‘Worry, I would call it.’.
at hump, n.1
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 33: Jazzin’ and the Pictures and wenchin’ – that’s about the size of him.
at jazz, v.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 133: Most unbearable of all was the knowledge that he had fathered a waster, a work-shy, a keelie.
at keelie, n.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 23: ‘Is Motherwell goin’ to bate Morton? That’s the question.’ ‘Sure. Nobs on.’ Tommy assured him. [Ibid.] 60: ‘You’ve clicked right enough,’ said the barman, impressed. ‘Sure,’ observed Danny again, ‘with knobs on.’.
at with knobs on under knob, n.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 149: The polis is just waitin’, and the likes o’ Peter gets landed.
at land, v.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 183: So that was her game, was it: dirty stuff with that English nancy – if he wasn’t just a lousy yid?
at nancy, n.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 24: The accumulator was a dead snip.
at snip, n.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 59: ‘G’on, ye lousy wee sucker!’ one man said angrily.
at sucker, n.1
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 26: ‘Ye dirty wee ticket!’ she snarled at the infant.
at ticket, n.1
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 157: Cancer of the liver, the poor old bastard. A toff and a gentleman, if ever there was one, a toff and a gentleman.
at toff, n.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 29: ‘Wheesht!’ said Danny softly.
at whisht!, excl.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 60: Crivens, boy, it’s great to see one of the old crush!
at crush, n.1
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 60: ‘And thon camels!’ Danny capped him. ‘Imshi! Ee-e-cht! Remember the bastards?’.
at imshee!, excl.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 60: Aye – the dirty sooners.
at sooner, n.
[UK] G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 60: I was his batman, see. Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, France. Four sucking years of it.
at sucking, adj.2
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