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[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 91: Mother made a seedy cake, / Gave us all the belly ache.
at belly-ache, n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 37: I’m goin to be blowed ef I play wiva lahsy blisterin blitherin blinkin blightin bloomin bleedin blasted baastard.
at blighted, adj.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 37: I’m goin to be blowed ef I play wiv a lahsy blisterin blitherin blinkin blightin bloomin bleedin blasted baastard.
at blistering, adj.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 37: Ef yer want an eye bunged up or a punch on the snaht —.
at bung up, v.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 37: D’ye want a claht over the jor? [Ibid.] 57: Charlie, Arlie stole some barley, / Out of a baker’s shop. / The baker came out and gave him a clout, / And made poor Charlie hop, hop, hop.
at clout, n.2
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 124: They asked me to play BANKER (just for a lark, they said) and got five coppers out of me in about half as many minutes.
at copper, n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 49: You can spend a nice Sunday afternoon over it, if there are no coppernobs about.
at coppernob (n.) under copper, n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 109: Danged if I know the reason why. But there it is.
at dang, v.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 142: It’s bound to end in trouble of some kind, for dead certain.
at dead, adv.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 72: Cold meat, mutton pies, / Tell me when your mother dies. [...] Cold meat, mutton chops, / Tell me when your mother drops.
at drop, v.3
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 123: Fag-cards are cheap, and no mistake.
at fag, n.3
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 160: You’ve got to play something or other – unless you want to be a soppy fathead.
at fat-head, n.1
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 79: Old mother roundabout / Knocking all the kids about – / Outside Elsie’s door. / Up comes Elsie with a great big stick / And lets her know what for.
at what-for, n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 37: Not ’arf.
at not half!, excl.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 88: Hoky Poky, penny a lump, / The more you eat, the more you jump.
at hokey-pokey, n.3
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 66: Lady, lady show your foot, / Lady, lady sling your hook.
at sling one’s hook, v.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 22: As soon as the judge says ‘Therefore deliver up them golden jools’, the prisoner – no, I can’t tell you any more about the game. It’s rather rude.
at jewel, n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 38: ’Ere, d’ye want a clip on the Kiber-pass?
at Khyber (Pass), n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 119: They prefer to go to picture-shows whenever they get a chance, instead of larking about the streets.
at lark, v.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 115: His father would ask whether some poor loony had been trying to box with a traction-engine going at full steam.
at loony, n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 111: We used to play them in the winter, on the pavement. But marlies are going down in the world, that’s for certain.
at marley, n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 30: Moggies are cats.
at moggie, n.1
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 130: Talking of real stones, there’s no doubt whatever that games played with them are the oldest in the world, together with the mud-larks.
at mudlark, n.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 107: It’s just a dodge for mumping half-pennies.
at mump, v.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 122: You don’t pay for fag-pictures: you mump them, see?
at mump, v.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 37: Yer wos on the grahnd when I crahned yer napper.
at napper, n.2
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 72: My foot slipped and I tumbled in – / Two little nigger-boys laughed at me.
at nigger, adj.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 38: Garn! P ........,* an play wiv the steam (*Four words censored).
at piss on, v.
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 154: He was a bit on, that night, was Mr. Perkins.
at on, adv.1
[UK] N. Douglas London Street Games 13: Only three weeks ago a couple of peelers were chucked into the water.
at peeler, n.2
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