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[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 55: I’ll have a bash at getting on then. [Ibid.] 121: Let me have a bash, sir.
at bash, n.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 136: He’s just beetled off on a top priority secret important mission.
at beetle, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 118: She’s biffing the wall on my side.
at biff, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 47: Oh, don’t talk such dehydrated bilge-water.
at bilgewater, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 245: It was just a sort of accidental bish – er – a mistake, I should say.
at bish, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 52: You have to start bishing-up the issue with man-eating crocodiles.
at bish up, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 71: We’ll have to pedal like blinko to get back to school by four o’clock.
at like a blink (adv.) under blink, n.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 227: You leave your blotch slightly skew-whiff inside your desk.
at blotch, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 127: He came stonking into the tuck-box room [...] and blew me up because I didn’t know where you were.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 93: It might well have belonged to a bogus hippogriff.
at bogus, adj.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 241: Are you feeling excited? I am, sir! [...] All sort of bottled-up with what-d’you-call-it.
at bottled up, adj.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 227: Seems a bit of a waste just to bung them in a box.
at bung, v.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 226: I shall probably bung it all in the dust-bin.
at bung, v.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 69: What did you want to butt in and make me waste my last shot for?
at butt in, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 148: Now look here, I’ve had enough of this carry-on.
at carry-on, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 80: Somebody’s very decently saved you the fag of carting them all the way upstairs.
at cart, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 201: You haven’t half dropped a clanger with Old Wilkie.
at drop a clanger (v.) under clanger, n.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 11: Don’t be such a clodpoll, Darbi!
at clodpoll, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 110: You do say the most cootish things.
at cootish (adj.) under coot, n.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 16: He’s as cuckoo as a coot, if you ask me.
at cuckoo, adj.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 240: I’ve never met such fatuous fat-headedness in my life!
at fat-headed, adj.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 57: I forked out a large chunk of Matron’s money to pay for it.
at fork out, v.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 105: Short-sighted professors and fossilised old geezers.
at geezer, n.1
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 71: But I can’t pedal like blinko on that old gridiron.
at gridiron, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 12: I’d say you were suffering from a pretty chronic attack of beginning-of-term-itis.
at -itis, sfx
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 135: You’re giving me the jitters – talking like a chronic old misery.
at jitters, the, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 217: By jove, it’s heavy!
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 56: Ker-tumf ... Kerpink! ... Ker-tumf ... ker-pink! ... answered Darbishire’s gear case.
at ker-, pfx
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 106: We’ll have to have some provisions for a kick-off.
at kick-off, n.
[UK] A. Buckeridge Jennings’ Diary 61: I’ve had enough of pushing this old mangle.
at mangle, n.2
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