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de
Old.
df
Popular song written in 1906 by Arthur J. Mills and Bennett Scott.
dg
Game played with cards.
dh
Working a desk job; literally, sitting on a chair.
di
British army uniform.
dj
Himself.
dk
Annual art show that received national attention.
dl
Half-worth of a weakling.
dm
More commonly spelled Michelangelo; Italian sculptor, architect, and painter in Renaissance Italy (1475-1564). D. H. Lawrence later describes Paul’s artistic style as having “a certain luminous quality, like some of Michael Angelo’s people. ...” (see page 329).
dn
Delicate, sensitive to cold.
do
Bundle of sticks.
dp
Crunch.
dq
Whiner.
dr
“It’s the truth.”
ds
Cold.
dt
Extra pair of pants for leisure.
du
Get dressed quickly.
dv
Quibbled.
dw
Irregular worker hired by the day.
dx
Special price for coal bought by miners at the mouth of the pit.
dy
Guzzle.
dz
Worry.
ea
Door curtain.
eb
“If you don’t do it, you don’t dare”—that is, “you’re chicken.”
ec
Likely.
ed
Smack.
ee
English system of sight singing.
ef
Spiny evergreen shrub with yellow flowers.
eg
Popular song, based on a poem by Robert Burns (1759-1796).
eh
Knight’s tent.
ei
Women’s Social and Political Union, a radical feminist organization.
ej
In a row.
ek
Has driven.
el
Reedlike grass.
em
Series of rods, originally made from bone, intended to cinch a woman’s body into shape.
en
Children’s rhyme in reference to the Burial Service in the
Book of Common Prayer
.
Book of Common Prayer
.
eo
With its head raised.
ep
Haughty.
eq
Pour.
er
British slang for the pound sterling.
es
Proverb.
et
Queen of England (1837-1901).
eu
Sown his wild oats.
ev
British slang for cigarette; from faggot, bundle of sticks.
ew
Troublesome.
ex
Poor thing.
ey
Brewed.
ez
By God.
fa
Irritated.
fb
Popular notion that being discontented was really a desire for higher things.
fc
Enlarged and printed in carbon.
fd
Spinning wheel.
fe
Coolness of composure (French).
ff
Eager.
fg
Tired.
fh
Type of willow.
fi
Personification of the spirit of Great Britain; usually depicted as a statuesque female.
fj
Misunderstood woman (French).
fk
Path between hedges or walls.
fl
Refuse from melting ore for metal.
fm
Shuffled.
fn
Belief that the truth of God cannot be understood through purely rational or scientific inquiry. † Nonsense.
fo
Crunchy, crisp.
fp
Game played with cards and a board fit with pins.
fq
God.
fr
Angry.
fs
Dinner jacket, as opposed to an evening jacket.
ft
Dressed for mischief.
fu
“Fast” woman.
fv
“It” refers to sex.
fw
God bless me.
fx
One who would carry a dagger.
fy
Literally, “Look for the women” (French); here the implication is “the woman is the root of the problem.”
fz
Reedlike grass, usually spelled marram.
ga
Leaf of a fernlike plant.
gb
Cad, rogue.
gc
Burn.
gd
Also morphine; the most important narcotic in opium and a common painkiller.
ge
Powdered-food formula that could be mixed with water and drunk for sustenance.
gf
Literally, “white night” (French); a sleepless night.
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