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[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 126: Cold weather in July. ‘Freeze the balls off a brass monkey,’ says Gerontius.
at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 97: ‘You’ll never get first class honours with this, boyo’.
at boyo, n.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 65: ‘Bugger your cousin,’ says Marcus. ‘Don’t you insult my cousin,’ says Gerontius.
at bugger, v.1
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 9: He goes out, quite openly, chasing women.
at chase, v.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 49: ‘Look, Neptune, you Old Man must be rolling,’ says Marcus. ‘Go and ask him for some. Let him cough up a bit of the ill-gotten for once’.
at cough up, v.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 67: flak.
at dog, n.2
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 101: Will you please inform your inspector, Mr Poface, that the next time he sets foot in my house I will scald him?
at po-faced, adj.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 44: ‘Curtains not the right size, bed won’t fit into the room, china wrong pattern. Who gets all the flak? The delivery man’.
at flak, n.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 66: Marcus is in low spirits. His girlfriend has broken off with him. He had been going with her for three months, now all at once she wants to be ‘just friends’.
at go with, v.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 68: ‘Jesus God!’ mutters Marcus, gunning the engine, as Gerontius races up and jumps into the car.
at gun, v.3
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 59: ‘River up, wind hard enough to blow a dog off a chain’.
at hard enough to blow a dog off a chain (adj.) under hard, adj.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 120: ‘Marcus said I’m an arrogant, lecherous young bastard, with a permanent hard-on’.
at hard-on, n.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 67: ‘A bunch of Veterinary students say they are going to catch you and castrate you, if you don’t stop having it off with their girls’.
at have it off, v.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 65: ‘Bugger your cousin,’ says Marcus. ‘Don’t you insult my cousin,’ says Gerontius, touchy as hell.
at as hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 59: ‘Shee! Not even a forty hour week’.
at shee-it!, excl.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 8: [H]e goes out every night, jazzing around looking for adventures.
at jazz around (v.) under jazz, v.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 93: Imagine the specialist in meaningful one-night stands, nervous!
at one-night stand, n.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 39: ‘Don’t forget to have a good pee before we go’.
at pee, n.1
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 17: A pox on Mrs Macmillan and all her fellow housewives!
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 123: ‘Didn’t you notice Garry’s sisters at the wedding and your party? One is married, but the other is a real raver’.
at raver, n.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 9: ‘He scores every night,’ says Neptune, awed.
at score, v.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 45: ‘All those teen-age sexpots, hot from skating, holding hands in the Couples Only,’ says Marcus, nostalgically.
at sexpot (n.) under sex, n.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 90: ‘Let’s get these presents into the car, then shove off’.
at shove off (v.) under shove, v.
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 113: ‘And I’m sorry for the poor sod’.
at sod, n.1
[Aus] J. Morrison Share House Blues 47: ‘Will you skate with me, spunky?’ says the red-head a second ahead of her friend.
at spunk, n.
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