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[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 144: She bangs like a Bofar gun.
at bang, v.1
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 98: Zack [...] demanded to know about ‘the street arab and future dole-bludger’ that wolfed away at their food?
at dole-bludger, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard n.p.: [...] insipid stock, fake tomatoes from Queensland, an absence of veal knuckles, Chateau Cardboard wine and pseudo-Cognac.
at chateau cardboard, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 131: He’d taken quite a liking to the seven carrot-polled boys.
at carrot-polled (adj.) under carrot, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 111: She clocked me with a crutch.
at clock, v.1
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 70: She was a top woman, and drank top shelf! I coughed up for a case of 1978 Grange.
at cough up, v.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 62: The wines had been selected [...] These did not warm their cruppers so much as the hocks.
at crupper, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 99: Houn le Pine and his agent [...] would be laughing, as much about the dudding by a country bumpkin of a city slicker as anything else.
at dud, v.2
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 156: Penny Goriot hopped in, rubbing her feelers, hoping that I’d order a bottle of La Tâche.
at feeler, n.2
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 61: He apologized for doing a moonlight flit.
at moonlight flit, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 58: Would Madam like to have a geek at her first stump-jump plough?
at geek, n.2
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 197: In no time at all she was under the table, jerking at my shrivelled gherkin.
at jerk one’s gherkin (v.) under gherkin, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 144: Get out of my life, Goldilocks. I’ve had a gutful of men, right up to the crop.
at gutsful, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 157: Ngo hammered the Riley from Queenscliff to Geelong.
at hammer, v.1
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 156: Squeaky McLean entered and asked about that ‘ace little sawn-off, Herbie, and that lairy Chink, F. X. Ngo’.
at lairy, adj.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 160: These saucy workingclass lasses [...] were soon addressing one particular umpire as a ‘white maggot’.
at maggot, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 146: She moped off looking like a bedraggled and stunted red setter.
at mope, v.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 75: Penelope wished to know whether Padlock fitted the description of ‘an ocker’.
at ocker, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 64: I polished off a cockle-warming and Shiraz-laden Crozes Hermitage.
at polish off, v.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 156: Squeaky McLean entered and asked about that ‘ace little sawn-off, Herbie’.
at sawed-off, n.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 87: Your mother had paps like a gorilla.
at paps, n.1
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 144: What’s wrong with that stuck-up Pommy tart?
at pommie, adj.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 36: I loved your pink chubby little body [...] I even loved your poo.
at poo, n.1
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 70: She was a top woman, and drank top shelf! I coughed up for a case of 1978 Grange.
at top-shelf, adj.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 22: The vintage of 1983 is proving to be a spanking one.
at spanking, adj.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 87: The Adelaide bore [...] espousing the causes of the modern woman, insisted that the grant would ‘not be suss’ as long as the donkey were female.
at sussed, adj.
[Aus] J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 152: I doubt there can be a more unsavoury mode of arousal from sleep than at the hand of a Melbourne wowser, bore, and creeping Jesus.
at wowser, n.1
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