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[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Tell-tale Clock’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 111: It’s all up [...] They’ve planted a tell-tale clock on every wagon.
at all up, adj.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Late Night on Watling Street’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 4: It [...] stopped with a loud brake squeal [...] ‘A good job his anchors are all right,’ said Taff.
at anchor, n.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Late Night on Watling Street’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 3: Right enough it was that damn great mardarse, Babyface.
at mard-arse, n.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Little Welsh Girl’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 144: We could have sent her out on the bash ourselves.
at bash, the, n.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Little Welsh Girl’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 135: Course you could see she wasn’t a brassnob by the way she looked at you.
at brass, n.2
[UK] B. Naughton ‘A Skilled Man’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 21: Bum bailiffs are in. Two of ’um [...] Say they won’t go till they get five quid in ready cash.
at bum, n.2
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Late Night on Watling Street’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 8: You was goin’ like the clappers of hell.
at go like the clappers (v.) under clappers, n.3
[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Little Welsh Girl’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 142: Near the Elephant there is a cottage for men, and it goes under the street.
at cottage, n.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Half-Nelson Touch’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 133: We both felt pretty done up.
at done up, adj.1
[UK] B. Naughton ‘A Skilled Man’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 16: I’m coming along at a fair crack [...] because I wanted to get to the caff down the road before they close.
at fair, adj.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Half-Nelson Touch’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 135: Shut up, you flamin’ mutt’.
at flaming, adj.1
[UK] B. Naughton ‘A Skilled Man’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 21: You’re Mister flamin’ know-all you are.
at flaming, adj.2
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Weaver’s Knot’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 87: Are you all right [...] Have you just come over funny?
at funny, adj.2
[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Little Welsh Girl’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 135: She said she’d she’d go off and get a gaff for the night.
at gaff, n.1
[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Tell-tale Clock’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 111: Wha the heck’s a tell-tale clock?
at heck, n.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Boozer’s Labourer’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 77: You should be able to handle more than this lot after necking five times as much.
at neck, v.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Late Night on Watling Street’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 4: ‘Has he got the rats in him!‘ said Ned. ‘He’s not in the best of moods surely,’ said Taff.
at rat, n.1
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Late Night on Watling Street’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 7: A real spiv kid, the clothes, the walk.
at spiv, n.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Spiv in Love’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 123: I’d nicked a bit out of the back of the collar [...] so that it gave the front points a nice spivvy cutaway look.
at spivvy, adj.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Spiv in Love’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 124: Francy the Troc?
at Troc, the, n.
[UK] B. Naughton ‘Late Night on Watling Street’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 10: I’ll wait for you in my tub. We’ll drive off together.
at tub, n.1
[UK] B. Naughton ‘A Skilled Man’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 23: They reached ‘The Collier’s Arms’ and Rostron said, ‘Fancy a vessel?’.
at vessel, n.2
[UK] B. Naughton ‘The Little Welsh Girl’ in Late Night on Watling Street (1969) 143: We did see her again, about two years later, over the West. In that street that leads off Piccadilly to the Regent Palace.
at up West under West, n.
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