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headship; costing; MOT, MOT test, Ministry of Transportation test; fire watching; snogging; zizz; square-bashing; rub up; shufti; lie-in; point duty; supplementary benefit, social assistance, national assistance; dole, pogy, pogey; car boot sale, boot sale; invigilation; aggro; punch-up; go-slow; Battle of Britain; arterial road; backbench; bar; betting shop; bin liner; boot; bottle bank; caff; carriageway; clearway; climbing frame; common room; countinghouse; croft; crossbench; delf; dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat; dixie; doorknob, doorhandle; Elastoplast; fairy light; fish slice; fleapit; footplate; free house; front bench; fruit machine; gamp, brolly; glebe house; greengrocery; greengrocery; gun room; Guy; gymslip; hair slide; hall of residence; hard shoulder; highroad, trunk road; home-farm; hosiery, hose; hypermarket; jobcentre; lido; life office; lodge; L-plate; lumber room; macintosh, mackintosh, mac, mack; meat safe; mews; milk float; minicab; minicar; minster; mod con; nearside; nick; overall, boilersuit, boilers suit; Oxbridge; panda car; pannikin; pantechnicon; parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak; paternoster; pelican crossing; pillar box; playbox, play-box; plimsoll; plughole; point, power point; public house, pub, saloon, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse; pull-in, pull-up; punnet; push-bike; quarterlight; racing circuit, circuit; redbrick university; rowing boat; scullery; secateurs; sheepwalk, sheeprun; shooting brake, estate car; skid lid; skidpan; slip coach, slip carriage; slop basin, slop bowl; stall; stately home; Sten gun; strongroom; surgery; tannoy; teashop, teahouse, tearoom, tea parlor, tea parlour; terraced house; titfer; toilet bag, sponge bag; tuck box; tuck shop; underfelt; van, caravan; verge; villa; visual display unit, VDU; washbasin, handbasin, washbowl, lavabo, wash-hand basin; wherry, Norfolk wherry; wincey; winceyette; wooden spoon; workhouse; cert; beastliness; cobblers; conk; countenance, physiognomy, phiz, visage, kisser, smiler, mug; noddle; nous; facer; snorter; niff, pong; wheeze; Thatcherism; Fabianism; Rediffusion; Magna Carta, Magna Charta, The Great Charter; royal charter; Higher National Diploma, HND; class list, honours list; short list, shortlist; rota; whip-round; book token; indent; colour supplement; cobblers; double Dutch; gen; Highway Code; Bachelor of Medicine, MB; honours, honours degree; first, first-class honours degree; double first; storm cone; ticktack; shoulder flash; trad; skiffle; argy-bargy, argle-bargle; green paper; prang; bunfight, bun-fight; jolly; whist drive; Maundy; burnup; race meeting; zizz; tuck; plain flour; whole wheat flour, graham flour, graham, whole meal flour; Fanny Adams; high tea; tea, afternoon tea, teatime; nosh-up; ploughman's lunch; hot pot, hotpot; castor sugar, caster sugar; pudding, pud; tipsy cake; pease pudding; roly-poly, roly-poly pudding; suet pudding; spotted dick; tart; Eccles cake; Christmas cake; simnel; teacake, tea biscuit; cookie, cooky, biscuit; Victoria sandwich, Victoria sponge; lemon curd, lemon cheese; chipolata; polony; banger; saveloy; butty; hasty pudding; spring onion; Victoria plum; whitefish; rock salmon; cattle cake; salad cream; clotted cream, Devonshire cream; treacle, golden syrup; bubble and squeak; cottage pie; kedgeree; bitter; pale ale; plonk; Rhine wine, Rhenish, hock; sundowner; scrumpy; cuppa, cupper; gob; al-Muhajiroun; National Trust, NT; Special Branch; Inland Revenue, IR; Ordnance Survey; admass; third estate; limited company, Ltd., Ld.; slate club; sixth form; skiffle group; gaudy; beanfeast; whist drive; direct-grant school; training college; Open University; privy council; works council; parliament; conservancy; select committee; Central Intelligence Machinery, CIM; Special Air Service, SAS; Secret Intelligence Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 6; Security Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 5; admiralty; county council; British Cabinet; shadow cabinet; second estate, lords temporal; High Commission; gutter press; public school; terrace; spinney; rave-up; local authority; heath, heathland; subtopia; county town, shire town; housing estate; stockbroker belt; shire; no-go area; pitch; new town; outport; weald; Great Britain; Home Counties; dale; mere; Anglo-Saxon; backbencher; berk; boffin; chancellor; Chief Constable; clever Dick, clever clogs; coiner; Colonel Blimp, Blimp; commissionaire; constable, police constable; convener; crossbencher; Esquire, Esq; fire watcher; frontbencher; fruiterer; greengrocer; guvnor; home help; Hooray Henry; inquiry agent; intern, interne, houseman, medical intern; invigilator; justiciar, justiciary; kerb crawler; Lady, noblewoman, peeress; land agent; linendraper; lollipop lady, lollipop woman; Lord Chancellor, Lord High Chancellor; margrave; mate; mercer; mod; muffin man; nan; nark, copper's nark; newsreader, news reader; office-bearer; outfitter; parliamentary agent; patrial; peer; peer of the realm; placeman, placeseeker; pointsman; pork butcher; potboy, potman; preceptor, don; publican, tavern keeper; question master, quizmaster; ranker; ranker; ratepayer; recorder; redcap; remover; returning officer; rocker; sandboy; scrimshanker; scrutineer, canvasser; settler; Sir; sixth-former; skivvy, slavey; slopseller, slop-seller; smallholder; sod; spiv; sprog; sprog; squire; stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate; stockjobber; stone breaker; sublieutenant; suffragette; supergrass; supremo; tallyman; tearaway; Ted, Teddy boy; Thatcherite; tout, ticket tout; townee; valuer; victualer, victualler; Wally; wog; Wykehamist; knock-on effect; medium wave; pot plant; ratables, rateables; smallholding; Crown land; rent-rebate; peppercorn rent; hire-purchase, never-never; sick benefit, sickness benefit; Christmas box; council tax; rates; poor rates; base rate; refresher; water-rate; assurance; giro account; giro, giro cheque; tenpence; threepence; sixpence, tanner; Maundy money; divvy; carry-over, carry-forward; Premium Bond; Civil List; last; quarter; inch, in; perch, rod, pole; tod; stone; bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams; milliard; billion, one million million, 1000000000000; trillion, one million million million; quadrillion; spot, bit; top-up; poverty trap; crick, kink, rick, wrick; dog's breakfast, dog's dinner; appro; hard cheese; fug; ratability, rateability; bumf, bumph; town gas; derv; clunch; surgical spirit; half-term; vac; November 5; Guy Fawkes Day; sell-by date; quarter day; guest night; rag, rag week; rag day; Boxing Day; Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Poppy Day; speech day; year dot; kip; question time; pretty, jolly; judder, shake; scrimshank |
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