Speaking of Briticisms

[Sarah]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> "Hermione felt she had been rumbled" (HBP Am. ed. 127, "Draco's 
Detour")
This means that Borgin knew she wasn't telling the truth because she 
was such a hopeless liar.

> Ron: "Today's going to be a real doss" (173, "The Half-Blood 
Prince")
This means that Ron thinks they aren't going to do a lot.  A dosser 
is someone who sits on the bum all day and does nothing - its not a 
term one usually hears in polite society(!)
 
> Dumbledore: "He {Mundungus} has gone to ground" (260, "the Seret 
Riddle")
Dung has gone into hiding - like a fox

> Ron: "Having a shufti" (taking a close look?) (460, "The Unknowable 
Room")
Yes, have a look at.
 
>And I'm curious about "draw his cork" (Peeves description of the 
house elfs' fight in "Elf Tails." Does the British edition by any 
chanceread "pull his conk," meaning his nose, a Peevesism in other 
books?
Yes, right again.
Sarah xx