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faint  (how I would probably feel after a kiss from a certain dark-haired, brown-eyed, dimpled ex-outlaw)

I am going to bend the rules again, just like our lovely boys.  As I cant play a q without a u I am going to treat qu as one letter.  (this way we get to use an occasional qu in the game) ~ so


quaint ~ just like the series, it has that lovely charm that I don't think would be easily recreated nowadays.

Fair enough - I'll treat it the same and offer:

paint

Pint  ~ as in beer, hic (but for me it has to be a good ale and not a lager)

I have to admit, I am still somewhat fuzzy on the different kinds of beer in the UK. I know a bit more about German types (thanks to a friend who studied beer brewing). But I never really developed a taste for it. I guess I am very un-German: not a coffee or beer drinker, don't like Schnitzel or Sauerkraut, never wore a Dirndl, don't drive a Mercedes or BMW,...

Punt

Ooh, I love Sauerkraut, a good sausage and a hunk of bread (but then I am a pickle person).

Hunt

Ha!!!!!

Hurt  (like Heyes in 5th victim)

hunt ~ they did their fair share of that (and being the quarry too)

shunt (like a railway engine might do)

shant

shanty - they must have stayed in some.
I agree about the beer. I'm mostly a red wine person, but a glass of real ale goes down nicely now and again.

shandy (thought I would stick with the beer motif)

sandy

candy  (I'm thinking of the eye variety - but you probably already guessed that. Only half an hour to HTRABIOHL, not my favourite episode, but at least lots of Heyes)

Dandy - as isn't you know who fine and dandy

handy - as is "he is handy with a gun"

Hardy

Hard (what you want to read into that is your own business )

I'm sure you just meant what a hard life they had

card

care

Dare

date

dote  (guess who I'm doting on... )

Vote  ~ and I am not voting for the Governor, 'cos he won't grant them amnesty

You show him, NW! (I will too)

Vole  (the closest smiley I could find)