Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Our Boys choose

Quotation Text

[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 40: J-j-just you try reportin’ me, and I’ll kn-kn-knock the old be-be-boy out o’ you .
at old boy, n.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 93: You dare to raise that knife to that boy, and off goes your head, cat-fish!
at catfish, n.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 34: Guard duty is beginning to lose its charms [...] I am beginning to get my eyes open to the fact that losing one’s sleep is not what it is cracked up to be.
at not all it’s cracked up to be under crack up, v.1
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 47: Some of the boys, however, took a ‘cruise about’ during the course of the day. [Ibid.] 63: Oh, I’ve been cruising around.
at cruise, v.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 145: D--n it to h-ll! Stop that infernal firing!
at dammit to hell (and back)! (excl.) under damn it!, excl.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 89: No! Be darned if I will! [Ibid.] 157: I’ll be gosh-dashed if I don’t black both o’ your eyes!
at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 166: You drunken dog!
at dog, n.2
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 85: It is highly improper for officers [...] to indulge in a vulgar knock-down.
at knock-down, n.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 347: The barefaced scoundrel! [...] O, I’ll fix him!
at fix, v.1
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 103: By jolly! I’d like to be onto that boat.
at by golly! (excl.) under golly!, excl.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 41: Now, by gosh, I will go and tell the captain!
at by gosh! (excl.) under gosh!, excl.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 215: Very well, now – great gooseberries, look there!
at great guns! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 235: In six months your government at Washington will go smash, and your green trash won’t be worth a snap.
at green stuff (n.) under green, adj.1
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 301: Holy horror!
at holy hell! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 178: Howly Moses!
at holy Moses! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 246: By chinks, it too tam pat!
at by jinks! (excl.) under jinks, n.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 180: Think of twenty dollars planked into your hand on the first day of every month.
at plank, v.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 202: He must recover his gun – or else pony up twelve dollars.
at pony (up), v.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 239: Come, now, my red-headed Irish pratie-machine.
at potato-eater (n.) under potato, n.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 235: In six months your government at Washington will go smash, and your green trash won’t be worth a snap.
at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 239: Oh, no, old sorrel-top, you wouldn’t do that.
at sorrel-top, n.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 145: The colonel [...] with an oath commonly called a ‘sweetener,’ roared out peremptorily: ‘Who the h-ll fired that gun?’.
at sweetener, n.2
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 30: You may think yourself lucky, this time, that I don’t give you a tanning.
at tanning, n.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 91: I’ll knock thunder out o’ you!
at thunder, n.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 138: ‘Thunderation!’ I breathlessly exclaimed.
at thunderation!, excl.
[US] A.F. Hill Our Boys 235: In six months your government at Washington will go smash, and your green trash won’t be worth a snap.
at trash, n.
no more results