Ambridge Reporter Shorter English Dictionary

Authorship - a maritime convention for writers.

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Authority - a writer with gravitas.

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Orthorexia: feelings of inappetance and revulsion engendered by exposure to certain writers…

No, I couldn’t possibly specify

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Authoritarian - a writer who lays down the law.

Orthodoxy - a female writer specialising in porn.

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Authorise Omniscient narrative viewpoint

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Only straight porn, one assumes.

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One for Joe:

Bricklayer - a confused hen in considerable pain.

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NB date, joe.

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Also breed of hen…

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Halloumi To talk to oneself in an overbearingly cheerful manner
Prorogue One who makes a living by being a scoundrel
Joint decision Something that seemed like a good idea when you were stoned
Pick-up bar Anacrusis, honestly officer…
Filibuster An excessively endowed stallion

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…and the name of the laying hen-farmer! :roll_eyes::thinking:

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I should have included some of the first page; they didn’t exactly go out of their way to hide what was going on:

The unusual-shaped eggs, laid at Ian Hatchett’s Flair Loop farm in Suffolk, have the potential to change the way eggs are packed and eaten.
RSPCA Assured’s Flora Pilo said: “These incredible hens are a winning combination all round - they’re in fine shape and untroubled by the changes.”
Look out for RSPCA Assured-labelled square eggs rolling out from Saturday 1 April 2017.

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Magnificat: leopard’s self-image. (Also Oaf’s.)

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navigate: entrance to a Stone Frigate.

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Lockdown = the canal’s knackered.

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Pendant Inhabitant of a formicarium
Dixie To encounter a flasher
Superscript Burial chamber for senior police officers
Teleology Alternative term for television studies
Precipice An urgent need for the toilet
Wagamama A footballer’s mother-in-law
Juniper A mohel

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Hirsute: a woman’s formal business apparel.
Trampoline: a medicated ointment to prevent the spread of gentlemen of the road in minor bites, cuts and abrasions.

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Apparatchik Psittacine hatchling
Celebrant Tirade by someone the tabloids inexplicably consider newsworthy
Clot Juvenile equine dyslexic
Eustachian Rail terminal for the better class of traveller
Inversion How an anecdote is told when pissed
Mogadishu The feline in question
Pompadour To enjoy pageantry
Troll Yorkshire bread
Turner Yorkshire breadwinner
Verdigris Unintentional operatic homicide
Vespasian An oriental wasp

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Investments: ‘It’s fine now - come in: I’m decent’; thus securities

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