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[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 6: I just like to feel that if I wanted something I could go out and buy it. Terrible when you ain’t got fuck all, you ain’t got nothing.
at fuck all, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 5: I don’t want to be down and out all the time.
at down-and-out, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 75: I jumped up a mile as if a bee had stung me – then up I get bold as brass.
at bold as brass (adj.) under bold as..., adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 72: Get upstairs or I’ll be phoning the asylum and have you put away.
at put away, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 41: One dinner time she had thirteen lagers bought for her. She only drank four, but [...] she was well away.
at away, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 129: I’d fuck meself up talking, I always get ballsed up talking to the upper classes.
at balls up, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 77: I could feel the tears come into my eyes. What a balls up!
at balls-up, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 49: All these men are very important people, very moneyed people – they’re all big noises down here.
at big noise (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 55: I once went on a blind date and then he turned out to be a Persian from Battersea.
at blind date, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 24: He understood about taking pills and getting blocked.
at blocked, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 14: The bird cage with a cheeping captive budgie.
at budgie, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 15: I’m fed up with buggy places.
at buggy, adj.1
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 17: I have lots of offers now but I am a bit nervous – being in the change.
at change, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 110: He’d got a building job as a cover up.
at cover-up, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 24: One day after Dave had cracked it for a few hundred he took Joy down Woolworth’s and they bought up half the shop.
at crack it, v.1
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 113: I can’t crack it, I can’t seem to crack it this stretch.
at crack it, v.1
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 77: The cheap crappy shoes.
at crappy, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 112: Look at those daffs; first sign of spring.
at daff, n.1
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 81: Here I am touching up this dirty old man for a couple of quid.
at dirty old man, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 13: They done him for forty-two charges.
at done, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 93: I thought ‘I’m with a dopey bloke here.’.
at dopey, adj.2
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 68: One bloke, I think he was pissed or had DT’s, he was shaking so much.
at DTs, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 78: Do you know you can fall with a white man and have it with a coloured bloke when you’e carrying and it’ll turn out a half-caste?
at fall, v.4
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 61: Like fuck; thought Joy and touched him for a fiver.
at like fuck!, excl.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 117: Right fuck you, I’ll fuck you up one day.
at fuck up, v.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 127: So you’re fucked whichever way you turn.
at fucked, adj.1
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 40: I mean I wouldn’t go on the game meself.
at on the game under game, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 124: He wants to make me an old granny pushing a pram – why shouldn’t I be a mum and a glamour girl too.
at glamour boy (n.) under glamour, adj.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 41: Joy was left to help the guv’nor lock up.
at guvnor, n.
[UK] N. Dunn Poor Cow 24: He understood about despair and clinging on and all sort of wild feelings that Tom had never understood, being just a thick-headed thug.
at thick-headed, adj.
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