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Where We Sported and Played choose

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[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 66: We spent a lot of time dollying ourselves up every night.
at doll up, v.
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 67: I liked that. It meant she was no daw.
at gobdaw, n.
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 45: Don’t be sticking them arrows in me eye, ye gowl.
at gowl, n.
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 101: A row of chalets on the beach front, which the hobnobs of the city rented.
at hobnobs, n.
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 32: This fella would blow our cover if found by someone else. ‘You’d better find him or we’re knackered.’.
at knackered, adj.
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 662: Some of the women were right lashers.
at lasher, n.2
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 111: Two of us saw a couple hurrying up Beale’s Hill, a well-known nobbers’ haunt.
at nobber (n.) under nob, v.
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 55: He said he’d give us the crock of gold he had planked [...] behind Ricey’s house.
at plank, v.
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 50: Crunchy carrots and rakes and rakes of delicious big chips.
at rake, n.3
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 82: Sugar, now I’m rightly stuck.
at right, adv.
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 57: I [...] wiped the scutter that ran down the back of my leg with the grease-proof paper.
at scutter, n.2
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 62: My maths exercise copy book that some shagger stole on the way to school.
at shagger, n.1
[Ire] T. Delaney Where We Sported and Played 82: Sugar, now I’m rightly stuck.
at sugar!, excl.
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