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One who has been working at that same desk in the same office for fifteen years and has very much his own ideas about why he is continually passed over for promotion.

BRUMBY

The fake antique plastic seal on a pretentious whisky bottle.

BRYMBO

The single unappetising bun left in a baker's shop after four p.m.

BUDBY

A nipple clearly defined through flimsy or wet material.

BUDE A polite joke reserved for use in the presence of vicars.

BULDOOO

a virulent red-coloured pus which generally accompanies clonmult (q.v.) and sandberge (q.v.)

BURBAGE

The sound made by a liftful of people all trying to breathe politely through their noses.

BURES

The scabs on knees and elbows formed by a compulsion to make love on cheap Habitat floor-matting.

BURLESTON

That peculiarly tuneless humming and whistling adopted by people who are extremely angry.

BURLINGJOBB

A seventeenth-century crime by which excrement is thrown into the street from a ground-floor window.

BURNT YATES

Condition to which yates (q.v.) will suddenly pass without any apparent interviewing period, after the spirit of the throckmorton (q.v.) has finally been summoned by incessant throcking (q.v.)

BURSLEDON

The bluebottle one is too tired to get up and start, but not tired enough to sleep through.

BURTON COGGLES

A bunch of keys found in a drawer whose purpose has long been forgotten, and which can therefore now be used only for dropping down people's backs as a cure for nose-bleeds.

BURWASH