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diary 13 Aug. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 8: The Second Mate’s Scotch and he came down for a brew.at brew, n.
diary 13 Aug. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 8: The Second Mate’s Scotch and he came down for a brew. diary 13 Aug. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 7: Tide was a right bugger getting across the Charlton.at right (old) bugger under bugger, n.1
diary 13 Aug. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 8: There’s all these Chinkies looking down laughing.at Chinky, n.
diary 12 Dec. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 15: Said I was a proper sailor. Not like those nancy boys in P&O.at nancy boy, n.
diary 12 Dec. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 14: There was this woman sitting at a desk by the door. A right rat-face [...] She really looked horrible.at rat face (n.) under rat, n.1
diary 5 Nov. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 173: Sparks has gone ape-shit.at go apeshit (v.) under apeshit, adj.
diary 9 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 52: Another thing, he said, don’t be a smartarse.at smart-arse, n.
diary 18 Apr. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 101: The Third [Engineer] never bags off. he has a picture of his wife on his desk and says goodnight to her every night.at bag off, v.
diary 9 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 51: The Mate saw me and gave me a bollocking and told me to go inside.at ballocking, n.2
diary 6 Nov. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 174: If a word of this gets out he’ll beat the shit out of me.at beat the shit out of, v.
diary 29 July in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 147: A couple of swift bevvies and he’ll have every bloody car in bloody Wollongong stacked, oop in’t heap.at bevvy, n.
diary 1 Nov. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 167: He may be a sort of padre but he lives like a bigwig. He’s got a couple of houseboys who’ll do anything for him.at bigwig, n.
diary 5 Nov. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 173: Ainslie told him to bog off. He didn’t.at bog off, v.
diary 9 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 51: They dropped me where I was. Thought I was bullshitting.at bullshit, v.
diary 10 May in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 117: It was no good saying I had to go to the khazi, because I’d just been.at carsey, n.
diary 19 Nov. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 183: Now I know about Anglo-Indians. Ainslie calls them ‘chee-chees.’ [...] They’re what Dad calls half-castes. Indian and British.at chee-chee, n.
diary 6 May in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 109: The quiet one’s [i.e. a Hong Kong prostitute] OK except she kept saying, You chelly boy?at cherry-boy (n.) under cherry, n.1
diary 4 July in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 131: I’m not sure why everyone’s so chuffed. I mean, it’s only crossing the equator.at chuffed, adj.
diary 9 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 52: I’ve got a couple of spots [...] The Mate says my face looks as mucky as the bum on a pox doctor’s clerk.at face like a pox-doctor’s clerk under pox-doctor’s clerk, n.
diary 25 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 70: He said, That’s right; the whole thing’s a cockup. We should never have got involved.at cock-up, n.
diary 7 Mar. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 75: Made a bit of a cock of the Morse.at cock-up, n.
diary 17 Apr. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 100: Forget the fancy toe painting or Madame Butterfly crap.at crap, n.1
diary 1 Nov. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 167: The houseboys reckon they’ve got a cushy number.at cushy, adj.
diary 30 July in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 148: The Mate [...] was Captain of some old London Greek with a dago crew.at dago, adj.1
diary 2 May in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 107: Ainslie had a Dear John today. His girlfriend’s chucked him.at Dear John, n.
diary 9 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 51: I’ve dhobi’d all my gear, but Ainslie says he can still smell me.at dhobi, v.
diary 4 Sept. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 154: The dockies are on strike. Want bigger rice bowls or something.at dockie, n.
diary 8 May in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 116: He keeps talking about people called expats. Seems they’re the British who live here.at expat, n.
diary 9 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 51: You’re no friggin’ good to me here.at frigging, adj.
diary 9 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 51: The Captain’s passing. Wants to know what the fuck’s going on.at fuck, the, phr.
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