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[UK] R. Garland Heart in Exile 226: The last affair Julian had was with a young tough [...] curly dark hair, spiv haircut – well, the cockney glamour boy.
at glamour boy (n.) under glamour, adj.
[UK] R. Garland Heart in Exile 127: The biggest enemy of the invert is the feminine man who becomes a homo-Puritan [...] most of the people who are so vehemently anti-queer are people with strong feminine streaks.
at homo, adj.
[UK] R. Garland Heart in Exile 53: I was sure he was ‘normal’.
at normal, n.
[UK] R. Garland Heart in Exile 188: I always felt the penny-dreadful was the real novel.
at penny dreadful (n.) under penny, n.
[UK] R. Garland Heart in Exile 247: I wasn’t going steady with her, but we used to go out. Only the day previous we had a ruck.
at ruck, n.2
[UK] R. Garland Heart in Exile 185: I think the author [...] is trying to engage your sympathy: ‘Pity us poor buggers.’ Which explains the tear-jerker title.
at tearjerking, adj.
[UK] R. Garland Heart in Exile 88: During the party she tried to vamp Julian.
at vamp, v.3
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