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[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 189: ‘Up your fucking arse,’ said the gypsy.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 152: The firemen of London sat on thire arses and pic ked their teeth.
at arse, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 141: One of the them produced a kilo of pork sausages [...] ‘I can’t abide burst bangers’.
at banger, n.3
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 150: You’re barmy [...] We don’t start fires, we put ’em out.
at barmy, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 216: Shut it, or I’ll bleeding bash you.
at bash, v.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 181: Sod off [...] Shove your gun in your fetid left armpit and pull the trigger.
at bastard, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 178: The bin? The asylum? Impossible, you have to establish insanity.
at bin, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 193: You blackleg bastards up there [...] Get off that filthy job.
at blackleg, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 157: The time for your bleeding childish nonsense is over and done with.
at bleeding, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 148: he was given a plate of blind hash and a mug of sweet tea.
at blind hash (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 157: Now you know who’s bloody well in charge.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 210: We want to see our brave bobbies back on the beat.
at bobby, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 149: Just one more and make it a boilermaker.
at boilermaker (n.) under boiler, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 201: Free Britons [...] coming out loaded with booze.
at booze, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 179: You have enough to do this evening without reading rags or gawping at the box.
at box, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 223: Sleep = get your head (swede, loaf) down.
at loaf (of bread), n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 118: ‘Homosexual?’ ‘He might well be for all I know. The bastards he got in with are brown-hatters’.
at brown-hatter, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 173: Bev [...] encountered two bruisers in official overalls.
at bruiser, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 149: If you won’t help, you won’t, so bugger you, matey!
at bugger you! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 165: Some of you poor buggers looks a bit the worse for wear.
at bugger, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 151: I’ve got a missis that’ll play screaming buggery when I get home.
at play buggery (v.) under buggery, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 175: This geezer’s got a fair number of pegs in his cakehole.
at cakehole (n.) under cake, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 168: This bugger’s up for the chop.
at chop, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 148: What’s your number, cock? [...] All your numbers, chummy.
at chum, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 148: What’s your number, cock?
at cock, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 148: You wait here, cocker, till court in the morning.
at cocker, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 134: We don’t listen to the crap they call sociology.
at crap, n.1
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 166: You want to raise a nice hot cupper to your lips.
at cuppa, n.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 217: The human staff had it cushy.
at cushy, adj.
[UK] A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 165: If yer don’t go, ducks, yer gets beat up proper.
at ducks, n.1
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