1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 128: Two sailors we had seen off an English ship [....] ‘drunk as two Nicodemons’.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 33: Where the arse wunnuh think wunnuh going?at what the arse...? under arse, n.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 65: An inswinger that travelled at ‘ninety kiss-me-arse miles an hour, boy!’ .at kiss-my-ass, adj.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 95: Be-Jesus Christ, if I didn’t know your mother [...] I would drive this piece o’ iron into your fucking head.at bejazus!, excl.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 66: I nods my cap to the ’Pire, and from that moment on it is bram! bram! [...] the fastest bowling in island!at bradarax!, excl.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 21: When the King want to wee-wee or fire a shit, all the King got to do is...at fire, v.3
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 95: Now, haul all your arses and help me load back these blasted canes on this lorry!at haul oneself (v.) under haul, v.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 23: Boys who were [...] ‘bad’ and who were ‘too mannish’.at mannish, adj.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 64: Why the five o’ wunnuh don’t move outta the rass-hole road!at raashole, adj.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 78: Boy, you bright as shite!at as shit (adv.) under shit, n.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 64: Get to shite off! Get off!at get to shite off! (excl.) under shite, n.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 8: Big boys, the school prefects and the masters [...] jeered and ‘skinned’ their teeth at me.at skin (one’s) teeth (v.) under skin, v.1
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 163: How things, daughter? I so-so.at so-so, adv.
1980 A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 6: One of the ‘uncles’ in that vicious circle of men with a pair of scissors and a broken glass bottle for a razor.at uncle, n.
1983 R. Baker Growing Up 72: Barney Google was a comic strip character and Sparkplug was his racehorse, a stolid square-cut hay burner to whom Barney was devoted.at hay burner, n.1