The Landlady: Vocabulary

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• a bit of all right enjoyable
• alas sadly
• baby-grand piano three legged piano
• big shot important person
• bitter almonds unsweetened taste of essence of amêndoa
• blotchy uneven marks
• brisk quick, efficient
• choosy not easily pleased
• Churchill and Roosevelt British Prime Minister and US President during Second World War
• congenial sociable, sympathetic
• dainty delicate
• Dempsey and Tunney boxers who competed in a famous match in 1926
• dither unable to decide what to do
• dotty crazy
• Eton exclusive private school
• five and sixpence old British money
• frisky lively
• fuss paying a lot of attention to
• glow giving off a warm light
• hearth place in a room where a fire is put
• jack-in-the-box children’s toy where head on a spring jumps out of box
• kippers a smoked fish (herring)
• landing place where stairs meet in a house
• off her rocker crazy
• on the off-chance by luck
• pane single piece of glass in a window
• peeling layer coming away from the wall
• plump soft
• pop jump out suddenly
• pop in enter quickly, without ceremony
• porch covered entrance of exterior door
• queer odd
• rapacious greedy; living by killing prey
• rim edge, side
• rings a bell sounds familiar
• sip drink delicately
• swamp overwhelm
• swanky expensive and snobbish
• tantalising tempting, inviting
• teeny weeny extremely little
• tiny very little
• tray flat receptacle for carrying cups, plates
• trilby hat a narrow-brimmed type of hat
• trot walk quickly
• undergraduate University student studying for first degree
• whiff slight smell

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