Glossary

astral

excellent, wondrous, fabulous

benighted

horrible, bad, miserable

dirty on

cranky with

doos

cool, ace, brilliant

doxhead

an annoying person

doxy

crappy, irritating, terrible

fairy dung

a cranky expletive

hoick

to hoist abruptly, to pull sharply

injured

lame, uncool, the opposite of “doos”

knackered

tired, exhausted, drained

malodorous

hideous, wrong, dismal

Our

a celebrity from New Avalon. So called because New Avaloners think all celebrities belong to them, thus 'Our Zora-Anne'

pox

exclamation of dismay

poxy

badly behaved, mischievous, exasperating

pulchritudinous, pulchy

beautiful, good-looking, attractive

spoffs

breasts

stellar

superlative, smashing, splendid

torpid

boring, injured, sucktastic

XI

in cricket the team is called an “eleven,” because there are eleven members of the team. Only it is spelled in Roman numerals. As in the New Avalon XI. Charlie is a member of the New Avalon Sports High B Stream XI