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aunt nell en · INTJ
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(Polari, imperative) Remain silent; be quiet.
aunt nell en · NOUN
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(Polari) An ear.
There was an omi down in Hackney, a stevedore, ran the Dalston Number Four Dock. He couldn't fly, see, cos he had something wrong with his aunt nells. His balance was all meshigener—you can't fly if you can't balance. You'd never be off your dish. But he had a daughter—loved her to the death—an' she could fly, and did, on the English Rose.
2012, Ian McDonald, Be My Enemy (Everness; 2), Hachette UK, →ISBN:
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aunt nelly fake · aunt nell dangler
aunt nell en · VERB
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(Polari) To listen; to hear.
@bonnie_langford you're aunt nelling the polari you bona pallone
2013 May 29, Gerry Tebbutt, Twitter:Aunt nell the patter flash and gardy loo! / Bijou, she trolls, bold on lallies / slick as stripes down the Dilly.
2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
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