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.