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[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 2: What a flaming animal!
at animal, n.1
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 26: Go on, get out of the kitchen, you bloody ape!
at ape, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 131: ‘You be O.K., you think?’ [...] ‘Hell, yes, she’s apples.’.
at apples, adj.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 161: In a pig’s eye!
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 174: Me? They can kiss my Royal Irish!
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 3: Urgers, touts, bludgers, bash-artists and straight-out crooks.
at -artist, sfx
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 210: He’s full as a fiddler’s bitch.
at full as..., adj.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 122: ‘I hear a few babblers managed to get in,’ Murdock sneered.
at babbler, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 121: There’s three dixies of goulash left over. Why not let them back up until it’s all gone?
at back up, n.1
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 98: If I meet any bagmen on the way, I’ll tell ’em where to come.
at bagman, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 7: ‘What nationality?’ ‘God knows – Balts of some sort.’ [Ibid.] 127: This’s where you begin your flamin’ lesson, Baltie!
at Balt, n.2
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 113: He said that the Balt said that Carmichael’s mother was on the barter – it’s a favourite insult with them.
at on the barter under barter, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 3: Urgers, touts, bludgers, bash-artists and straight-out crooks.
at bash artist (n.) under bash, v.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 161: Chuck over that pair of strides, will you – I’m further behind than Walla-walla.
at further behind than Walla Walla, phr.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 220: Those bastards in the office got no business poking their bibs in and helping him.
at stick one’s bib (in) (v.) under bib, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 95: That’s big of you.
at big, adj.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 195: A couple of blow-ins from the Causeway.
at blow-in, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 226: I don’t know whether I hate them or pity them [...] with their right to strike and rest and bludge.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 66: Play dumb, and they’ll make all the blues.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 173: The old bitch gave Bet the order of the boot.
at order of the boot (n.) under boot, the, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 8: It’s a bottler of a plan.
at bottler, n.1
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 66: ‘You’re a bloody bottler!’ Charlesworth cried warmly.
at bottler, n.1
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 106: It didn’t do to be seen batting the breeze with one of the bosses.
at bat the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 5: Use anything you can find in this brothel, but for God’s sake wash it out first!
at brothel, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 108: I tried to talk my sheila into doing it for me, but she bucked.
at buck, v.2
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 230: Hitch out to Bullamakanka and live with the blacks.
at bullamakanka, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 113: Oh, one of the blokes in the kitchen got the sack. A big log called Vodavitch. [...] He got the bullet.
at get the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 109: Put that stuff back in the kitchen, Mancin – we’re not running a blasted bun-rush here, you know.
at bun-struggle (n.) under bun, n.3
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 104: Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, the whole damned caboodle.
at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
[Aus] T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 189: Anyway, it won’t worry me much which way the cat jumps.
at see which way the cat jumps (v.) under cat, n.1
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