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[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 177: God! was he up in the air!
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 216: But I can’t paint for sour apples.
at for sour apples (adv.) under apple, n.1
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 178: You get around like a bear with a sore head, growl at everything, nothing’s right.
at bear, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 181: I think they’re beauty! [Ibid.] 185: She spilt some sugar over the tablecloth. ‘Beauty! I’m going to get a lot of money!’.
at beauty!, excl.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 153: We used to sit in our huts and listen for the gumboot boogie [...] waited till you heard the feet banging on the floor somewhere around. That’s how you found out where the party was.
at boogie, n.4
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 111: Come on, get it down, folks [...] Bottoms up!
at bottoms up!, excl.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 239: It’s the good-looking brush that gives a man all the trouble.
at brush, n.4
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 220: Sweating, feeling ill, she said, ‘Oh, go bite your backside!’.
at bite your bum! (excl.) under bum, n.1
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 193: The old boy with his head tilted forward all the time [...] bun hat in his dook – that’s Sir Walter Peach.
at bun, n.3
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 180: He’s a card, isn’t he?
at card, n.2
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 127: All they get there is Pommies off ships [...] and hard-case dames, and jokers who don’t know what to do with themselves.
at hard-case, adj.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 90: I like chocolate [...] and Juicy Fruit chuddy.
at chutty, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 99: Keep your hoofs to yourself or you’ll cop one smartly.
at cop one (v.) under cop, v.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 210: Don’t let these counter-spanks rush you. They’ll kid you into taking something you don’t want unless you learn to talk back.
at counter-hopper, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 240: I’ve got nothing, Harry: not a cracker.
at cracker, n.4
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 257: Whenever the Ds want to check up on some Maori brush, around they come to see you.
at D, n.2
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 127: All they get there is [...] hard-case dames, and jokers who don’t know what to do with themselves.
at dame, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 74: The dyke’s in the bathroom, and someone’s sure to stink the place out.
at dike, n.1
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 62: They had to do him up a bit.
at do up, v.1
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 257: There was a donny down at the Foresters tonight [...] Couple of them had this bloke down, one of them was beating him with a bottle.
at donnie, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 193: The old boy with his head tilted forward all the time [...] bun hat in his dook – that’s Sir Walter Peach.
at dook, n.1
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 120: You got the dry horrors?
at dry horrors (n.) under dry, adj.1
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 19: She delighted in giving cheek to the boys and taking refuge in the girls’ dunny.
at dunny, n.2
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 116: Here, have a pig’s ear, that’ll straighten you up. Larry, cork the bottle.
at pig’s (ear), n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 142: I’d show him what-for soon enough.
at what-for, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 169: Have a nice night with old fungus-face.
at fungus, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 168: ‘Here!’ he thrust a ten-shilling note at her [...] ‘Now get!’.
at get!, excl.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 111: I bet she’s there having a real guzzle.
at guzzle, n.
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 258: All right, don’t get hairy, don’t get hairy [...] Don’t go the rough stuff.
at hairy, adj.4
[NZ] N. Hilliard Maori Girl 56: ‘Hang the breakfast,’ she thought.
at hang!, excl.
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