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Ernie and the Rest of Us choose

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[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 15: Two ‘baddies’ from one of our secret-reading ‘Deadwood Dick’ stories.
at baddie, n.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 119: The eggs are cold, so the biddies are still laying.
at biddy, n.1
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 140: Ernie the feudal baron, with his chunk-headed serfs!
at blockheaded, adj.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 106: ‘Meeting!’ retorted Mother, witheringly. ‘Boozeroo you mean! [...] I’m glad the old Soak had to walk home.’.
at boozeroo, n.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 140: I’ll have that guinea in no time, if we all buckle-to.
at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 119: Mum’ll go butchers’ hooks at us if she finds out.
at go/be butcher’s (hook) (v.) under butcher’s (hook), adj.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 62: We demanded a bigger bit of ‘chewey’.
at chewie, n.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 110: A poor performance of a bucking by a horse was called ‘only pig-jumping’.
at pig jump (v.) under pig, n.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 75: You think you’re being brave and noble, but you’re just a big silly quince.
at quince, n.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 15: A certain black-currant cordial was to be reserved for David to ‘wet his whistle.’.
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
[NZ] J. Boswell Ernie and the Rest of Us 75: ‘I’ll whale the living daylights out of you,’ threatened Ernie.
at whale the — out of someone (v.) under whale, v.1
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