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[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 279: It wouldn’t’ve bruised ’is arse if it ’ad fetched him one.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 372: For raising me eyebrow at a copper, beetlebrow.
at beetle-brain (n.) under beetle, n.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 208: And ’ow does your little bit like it when you come ’ome and lay yer head up against hers on the pillow and her ’as only been married to you three months and as can’t be used to the dirt.
at bit, n.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 257: I get black looks from him every time I come in after being out with you.
at black, adj.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 208: You silly bleeder. [Ibid.] 225: It am a bleeder [...] ’e said, ‘next time and you’re sacked and out you go.’ It am a bleeder.
at bleeder, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 295: I’ll wait till I get back to Brum before I wash the dust off me of this bloody ’ouse.
at Brum, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 321: Oh Bert I wish your dad and mother did live in Brummagen and not in Liverpool.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 307: He called Jim and said to him why must he be chipping Lily about Jones, why not leave her alone more?
at chip, v.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 338: Most likely she had not had dinner ready for them because she had been wild with her father at his clouting her.
at clout, v.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 315: He kissed her while she laughed at him. ‘Crazyhead’ he kept on saying to her.
at crazyhead (n.) under crazy, adj.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 274: Don’t listen to that old cuckoo.
at cuckoo, n.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 264: An’ talkin’ about women, the times I ’ad with ’er mother before we was married. Why if any dago stopped in the street her was after ‘im.
at dago, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 251: You’re a young man and this place will seem to you a dead alive sort of hole.
at dead alive (adj.) under dead, adj.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 228: I’m through. Done up.
at done up, adj.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 236: I cut steps of bread and cheese that we took with us.
at doorstep, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 372: ’Ave a good cry, cry your ’eart out dovvy wovvy.
at lovey-dovey, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 213: ’e don’t get much rest in the night time neither as ’e’s reading fairy stories for the old gaffer to get to sleep.
at gaffer, n.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 312: I brought the old gamp.
at gamp, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 241: I could hold my gob for a day and a year if I so wanted.
at hold one’s gob (v.) under gob, n.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 241: How are you Colonel, how’s it going?
at how’s it going?, phr.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 210: Gor glomey ain’t ’Tis ’im about with the governor’s son. [Ibid.] 247: Oh gor blimey, you men it’s enough to drive us women mad. [Ibid.] 378: Gor blimey, you a Villa supporter and won’t take a loan of a bob to see ’em play.
at gorblimey!, excl.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 350: Anyway was no hanky panky about her, it was marry or nothing with her.
at hankypanky, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 292: There’s been a heap of trouble in the iron foundry over that job.
at heap, n.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 254: ‘Yessir’ foreman said ‘they’re tearing into it.’.
at tear into, v.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 210: Stick it, you’ll be out soon.
at stick it, v.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 223: They put publicans in jug if so ’appen they give yer a smell over the pint.
at jug, n.1
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 3676: To ’ave the coppers come in an’ take you for disorderly be’aviour, and when you ain’t even tight, it’s loony, Joe.
at loony, adj.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 221: Tupe said perhaps that was why he was so mingy, not a penny coming from his pocket without his making a groan.
at mingy, adj.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 212: There was Craigan’s nose-wiper by me, Joe Gates.
at nose wiper (n.) under nose, n.
[UK] ‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 213: The O.K. gas plant.
at OK, adj.
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