Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

So What Do You Reckon? choose

Quotation Text

[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [T]he racist bastard gave me the lemon.
at give someone the lemon (sarse) (v.) under lemon and sarse, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Wellington’s On the Other Foot’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [of a woman] She [...] bonked me on the loungeroom floor.
at bonk, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Wellington’s On the Other Foot’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] What if my mate John had gone round to Miss X’s house demanding a Wellington.
at wellington (boot), n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] They get the Edgar Britts and want to fight you.
at Edgar Britt, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Tall Poppies Deserve Short Shrift’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Not that for an instant I’m against making a buck.
at buck, n.3
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘I Might be a Racist, But’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] I’m buggered if I could see the Ku Klux Klan dynamiting churches.
at buggered, adj.1
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Tall Poppies Deserve Short Shrift’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [I]t burns their arses to think that a wombat like me can be a successful writer.
at burn someone’s arse (v.) under burn, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Wellington’s On the Other Foot’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [R]ather than be a cad and belt her in the mouth, he called the police.
at cad, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Having no chops, I stuck it [i.e. dish-washing] out.
at chops, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] To say I was chuffed would be the understatement of the year.
at chuffed, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Poofs on Parade’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Don’t cop it up the date and you won’t get AIDS — it’s as simple as that.
at cop it, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] I’m a corny, flag-waving patriot.
at corny, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Colleen McCullough and Thomas Keneally [...] have cracked it overseas.
at crack it, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Writing in Australia isn’t quite the glitzy, glamorous life it’s all cracked up to be.
at not all it’s cracked up to be under crack up, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Poofs on Parade’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [M]en would still have to wear their Reg Grundys when taking a shower or having a crap.
at take a crap (v.) under crap, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Poofs on Parade’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Why these dag rattlers have to blame heterosexuals [i.e. for AIDS], and anybody else that can’t condone their lifestyle [...] is beyond me.
at dag rattler (int.) under dags, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Tall Poppies Deserve Short Shrift’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] He’s supposed to be a hot-shot wheeler-dealer.
at wheeler-dealer, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Others might [...] suggest I stick my typewriter where the sun don’t shine.
at where the sun doesn’t shine, phr.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Poofs on Parade’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [D]idn’t the poofs and the dykes get the hump? They [...] threatened Fred and his faithful followers with all manner of dreadful things.
at dyke, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Writing in Australia isn’t quite the glitzy, glamorous life it’s all cracked up to be.
at glitzy, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [A]n even bigger, grungier pit [...] with a kitchen that looked like Dr Jekyll’s lab.
at grungy, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [S]omewhere to dump their pointy-headed, snotty-nosed little monsters.
at pointy-head, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Tall Poppies Deserve Shrift’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Now to get himself out of hock he’s going to flog off his resorts.
at in hock under hock, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Poofs on Parade’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Fred assembled his flock of holy rollers and bible-bashers.
at Holy Roller, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Tall Poppies Deserve Short Shrift’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] He’s supposed to be a hot-shot wheeler-dealer.
at hot-shot, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [People] think you’re Jack The Lad, having a top time getting paid millions for doing nothing.
at jack the lad, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Wellington’s On the Other Foot’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] What if I [...] got two mates to throw beers over her and then I kicked her in the lamington?
at Lamington, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘So Why Doesn’t Jack the Lad Get a Real Job?’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [L]emons from the bank in ill-fitting suits wanting to repossess your home.
at lemon, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Tall Poppies Deserve Short Shrift’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Even a lowlife like me gets it occasionally to some degree, mainly from dopey sheilas.
at lowlife, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barratt ‘Barrett’s Gone a-Punting’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] And what could a mug punter like me do but bow to better judgment?
at mug punter (n.) under mug, n.1
load more results