Night of the Animals (46 page)

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Missing or dead

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Using or being intoxicated by Flōt

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Can't

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. . . you're onto something

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Any way

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I didn't

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Peculiar

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Mad man

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Doss houses

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Hands

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Kiss

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From “Brum,” i.e., Birmingham

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Can

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Insane

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Of weak character

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Sinks for dirty water

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Beasts

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Flatlanders, i.e., people not of the Clee Hills

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Rendered giddy

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Beatings

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Angry about something

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A famous hill and landmark in east Shropshire

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“All the twinkling stars say, all through the night”

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Polish: “You pig!”

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From Ted Hughes, “Crow's Fall”

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Good-bye

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London

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Awesome!

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Optical head-mounted display, e.g., Google Glass

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A person from the Black Country; can be contemptuous

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Nicknames for West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton football clubs

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Sorry

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How are you?

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Dead

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Annoyed by

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In this case, translator

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Breaking and entering

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An addictive and dangerous recreational drug of the future that causes a characteristic snicker

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Grievous bodily harm of the earhole, i.e., something painful to hear

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“Out there,” crazy, etc.

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Of poor quality

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All right

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Disrespect. Guyanese slang.

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Specialist firearms police units

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Yoruba term for an inner spiritual intuition or spark

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Generic name for a football-supporter organization, often associated with hooliganism

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

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The Revolutionary French raiders who landed in Wales in 1797

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Sikh turban

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MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service

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A large hold-all sack

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A Sufi chant: “God is truth”

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A full English breakfast, typically eggs, sausages, beans, bacon, black pudding, tomato, etc.

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Meal