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[US] F. Hurst ‘White Goods’ in Humoresque 160: This has got your Twenty-third Street dump beat a mile, and then some.
at and then some!, excl.
[US] F. Hurst ‘White Goods’ in Humoresque 147: Gad! that old hag gets my fur up.
at get someone’s angora (v.) under angora, n.
[US] F. Hurst ‘A Petal on the Current’ in Humoresque 97: I’m going to see that you get away from her apron-strings.
at apron-strings, n.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Even As You And I’ in Humoresque 263: Before the Palace of Freaks, a barker slanted up his megaphone.
at barker, n.1
[US] F. Hurst ‘Boob Spelled Backward’ Humoresque 239: I make big and spend big.
at big, adv.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Oats for the Woman’ Humoresque 72: Leon Kessler is big rich.
at big, adv.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Even As You And I’ in Humoresque 280: Aw, say – have a heart; blow me to a bracer, too!
at bracer, n.1
[US] F. Hurst ‘Even As You And I’ Humoresque 268: Knock me around all you want [...] but let me be buried in the Buckeye State.
at buckeye, n.1
[US] F. Hurst ‘Oats for the Woman’ in Humoresque 47: That’ll be enough canary-talk out of you, Clare.
at canary-talk (n.) under canary, n.1
[US] F. Hurst ‘A Petal on the Current’ in Humoresque 96: You two go on and talk together. I’ve chewed Arch’s right ear off already.
at chew someone’s ear, v.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Boob Spelled Backward’ in Humoresque 244: That’s your trouble, Sam; you’re so chicken-hearted.
at chicken-hearted, adj.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Boob Spelled Backward’ in Humoresque 226: How is it all of a sudden a girl in the wholesale ribbon business should have the trade to entertain like she was in the cloak-and suit chorus?.
at cloak-and-suiter (n.) under cloak, n.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Heads’ in Humoresque 173: I should sit at home now since we got a new mouth to feed? That would be a fine come-off!
at come-off, n.
[US] F. Hurst ‘A Petal on the Current’ in Humoresque 92: One glass of beer could make him so crazy loony.
at crazy, adv.
[US] F. Hurst ‘White Goods’ in Humoresque 159: Gosh darn her neck!
at gosh-darn, v.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Oats for the Woman’ Humoresque 72: He ’ain’t seen her since a child, and all of a sudden he comes West and finds in front of him an eye-opener.
at eye-opener, n.1
[US] F. Hurst ‘Even As You And I’ in Humoresque 278: We saw him throwing goo-goos at Albino.
at goo-goo eyes, n.
[US] F. Hurst ‘A Petal on the Current’ Humoresque 92: Is it any wonder the world is filled with little flips.
at flip, n.3
[US] F. Hurst ‘Oats for the Woman’ in Humoresque 72: Your old man in his young days wasn’t such a low flier, neither.
at high-flyer, n.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Oats for the Woman’ in Humoresque 78: Pressing a necklace of kisses round her throat [...] ‘One more, darling – a French one.’.
at French kiss, n.
[US] F. Hurst ‘White Goods’ in Humoresque 130: Say, and ain’t you a freshie!
at freshie, n.1
[US] F. Hurst ‘A Petal on the Current’ Humoresque 114: Ye hussy! Jailbird!
at gaolbird, n.
[US] F. Hurst Humoresque 6: I’m goin’, ma; for golly sakes, I’m goin’!
at golly, n.1
[US] F. Hurst ‘A Petal on the Current’ in Humoresque 87: I know a society that will pay you a big fat sum if you’ll sign over them eyes for post-mortem laboratory work [...] those are some goo-goos!
at goo-goo, n.3
[US] F. Hurst ‘Heads’ in Humoresque 205: A goy play-actor!
at goy, adj.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Oats for the Woman’ in Humoresque 77: She’s got me so hipped I’m crazy.
at hipped, adj.2
[US] F. Hurst ‘White Goods’ in Humoresque 167: Them remnants went like hot cakes.
at like hot cakes under hot, adj.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Heads’ in Humoresque 214: You just kick up nasty at the last minute and watch me!
at kick up, v.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Even As You & I’ Humoresque 288: I’m a lump – that’s what I am. Nine months of laying. I’m a lump.
at lump, n.
[US] F. Hurst ‘Oats for the Woman’ in Humoresque 48: You’d shove over the Goddess of Liberty if you thought she had her foot on a meal ticket.
at meal ticket, n.
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