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[UK] P. Devlin All of Us There 113: Any other young woman wearing a hat, or any other garment not considered suitable, is [...] called a ‘blade’ or ‘tackle’.
at blade, n.
[UK] P. Devlin All of us There 51: ‘Who’s he?’ she said. ‘The cat’s father?’.
at cat’s mother (n.) under cat, n.1
[UK] P. Devlin All of us There 74: Get out of it, you gorb.
at gorb, n.
[UK] P. Devlin All of us There 160: ‘And by Christ,’ Feley said, ‘it’ll be the last for I’ll have the greath off the guilderhead fornenst it.’.
at guilderhead, n.
[UK] P. Devlin All of us There 72: Any form of hesitation is called kiffling.
at kiffle, v.
[UK] P. Devlin All of us There 136: They go into the fields behind the house to ‘light up’, as smoking is always called.
at light up, v.1
[UK] P. Devlin All of Us There 106: Bad cess to him, and his breed, seed and generation, wouldn’t he give you the scunder looking at him.
at scunner, n.
[UK] P. Devlin All of us There 37: A child who fought back was ‘a wee skitter’.
at skitter, n.
[UK] P. Devlin All of us There 113: Any other young woman wearing a hat, or any other garment not considered suitable, is [...] called a ‘blade’ or ‘tackle.’.
at tackle, n.1
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