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[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 9 Dec. 6/1: One [...] accuses one of the pupil teachers (of the feminine gender) with writing a treatise on Swipes, Bunker or Cat-lip, and I must necessarily infer that she must have a proneness for getting Buffy and Kisky.
at buffy, adj.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 9 Dec. 6/1: One [...] accuses one of the pupil teachers (of the feminine gender) with writing a treatise on Swipes, Bunker or Cat-lip, and I must necessarily infer that she must have a proneness for getting Buffy and Kisky.
at bunker, n.1
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 9 Dec. 6/1: When next she meets him she had better swivel-eye him and pay him a chin-chin, and then perhaps he will Tip her a Fyebuck or Half a couter.
at chin, n.2
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 9 Dec. 6/1: One [...] accuses one of the pupil teachers (of the feminine gender) with writing a treatise on Swipes, Bunker or Cat-lip, and I must necessarily infer that she must have a proneness for getting Buffy and Kisky.
at kisky, adj.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 9 Dec. 6/1: One [...] accuses one of the pupil teachers (of the feminine gender) with writing a treatise on Swipes, Bunker or Cat-lip, and I must necessarily infer that she must have a proneness for getting Buffy and Kisky.
at swipes, n.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 9 Dec. 6/1: When next she meets him she had better swivel-eye him and pay him a chin-chin, and then perhaps he will Tip her a Fyebuck or Half a couter.
at syebuck, n.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 13 June 3/5: An ornamental man, one who by some means crept out of ‘’Arrydom’ into the ranks of the Fourth estate.
at ’Arrydom (n.) under ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 14 Aug. 2/7: There were champapagne and claret cup, Badminton, and the old English sherry cobbler.
at badminton, n.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 15 Jan. 3/4: Don’t make a bolt from your 7 o’clockj dinner-table to you club.
at bolt, n.1
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 22 Oct. 3/7: People have no right to go about casting nasturtiums on other people, indignantly declared the old lady.
at cast nasturtiums (v.) under cast, v.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 31 Jan. 4/2: Everybody in the town seemed to have conspired to give ‘the cold eye and the frozen hand’.
at cold-eye, n.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 16 Feb. 4/1: Each writer has passed the mid-period of life [...] One must reckon the symptoms they record as eveideence of a disease a wit has called Anno Domini — just years.
at anno domini, n.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 19 Oct. 16/6: He [...] dragged her up and said: ‘You are a — great big-mouthed thing, crying as if you are being murdered’.
at big-mouthed, adj.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 19 Oct. 16/6: That — little bitch had no business about here asking for trouble. I didn’t touch her.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 13 Apr. 4/4: As he [i.e. a bus driver] was crossing the cross road there was a ‘plonk,’ and he pulled up.
at plonk!, excl.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 6 Aug. 18/3: They were all very good sports [...] but they certainly seemed to put more beef into their playing.
at put some beef into it (v.) under beef, n.1
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 1 Sept. 5/5: His portrayal as [the] pea-brained, mighty fisted henchman is the finest piece of work.
at peabrained (adj.) under peabrain, n.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 2 Feb. 4/7: A clod-hioopping forgetful professor whose clumsy love-making is a joy to watch.
at clodhopping, adj.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 30 Apr. 3/3: Witness asked him what he meant by saying that he was going to knock the stuffing out of him.
at knock the stuffing out of (v.) under stuffing, n.1
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 26 Dec. 6/3: He had two more cracks before Wicks [...] descended on the Borstal goal like a ton of bricks and made it 3-1.
at like a ton of brick(s) (adv.) under brick, n.
[UK] Kent & Sussex Courier 26 Dec. 6/3: Heywood [...] picked up a pass from the opposite wing and beat Morrison with a dazzler.
at dazzler, n.
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