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alky
noun
Alternative spelling of alkie
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Ink and the Bottle, a cheerfully reflective exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, includes four cartoons featuring Capp, the Mirror's workshy alky, alongside images by William Hogarth, Heath Robinson and Ronald Searle.
Vodka is a hard-core alky drink.
How can she bear to marry an alky who by his own admission never has a bath?
Much the praise given to the movie has been reserved for its leading lady: three months pregnant at the time of the shoot, but doing desperate alky to a tee.
At a temple then matched with a bendu alky (who necked all the dowry dosh in a dash!), her psyche hell-bent that she tossed up a rope round a beam, in a shed some 'tashed men got to watch how possessed she'd become for the crack of her neck!
Mark was a card-trick genius, a bright-eyed under-age Johnny Cash alky.
We could keep with Jocelyn Jee Esien's Roger Hargreaves-esque theme and describe those roles as Little Miss Hapless, Little Miss Alky and Little Miss Stalker, yet they're actually known here as Donna, Karen and Louise.
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