Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Marion Daily Mirror choose

Quotation Text

[US] Marion Dly Mirror (OH) 27 June 12/5: He looked like a booby of a boy that had just been bootjacked [...] ‘I’ve been robbed — cleaned out’ says he.
at bootjack, v.
[US] Marion Dly Mirror (OH) 4 July 12/3: She called him a doughhead and a fool and a lot of other things.
at dough-head (n.) under dough, n.
[US] Marion Dly Mirror (OH) 27 June 12/5: ‘Gee whiz! Jeminy!’ he groaned.
at jiminy!, excl.
[US] Marion Dly Mirror (OH) 12 Apr. 4/1: Litle Nick longworth with about braisn enough to pound sand down a rat-hole.
at pound sand in a rathole (v.) under pound, v.2
[US] Marion Dly Mirror (OH) 29 Jan. 1/1: Albert W. Wolter [...] went smiling to his death in the electric chair [...] the coolest convict ever killed in the grim state prison/ Wolter’s bravado remained with him to the end.
at cool, adj.
[US] Marion Dly Mirror (OH) 29 Jan. 1/1: ‘Goodbye boys,’ he shouted to the other eighteen condemned murderers in ‘death row’.
at Death Row, n.
[US] Marion Dly Mirror (OH) 22 Jan. 5/4: Phillips objected strongly to having his ‘mug shot,’ as the police say, and it was after a struggle [...] that the photographer was able to locate the prisoner’s face with the camera.
at mug shot, n.
no more results