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The Fish Factory choose

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[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 34: Make a bally poor vegetarian, I would, Missus.
at bally, adv.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 176: Being a County Council man who shouldn’t make such a blue, I was too embarrassed to shout for a ladder.
at blue, n.4
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 75: What a cruel thing to say, box-head.
at boxhead (n.) under box, n.1
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 63: Most of the people thought he was a bugger of a joker.
at bugger, n.1
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 78: ‘Who the hell let that damn cat into the bar?’ he wailed. [...] ‘Eight pounds of my bug [i.e. crayfish] down his furry cakehole! Shell and bloody all.’.
at cakehole (n.) under cake, n.1
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 66: The Porangiwharenui County Council crap-house.
at craphouse, n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 10: How are the crays, Dan?
at cray, n.1
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 74: Jackpot shook his head. ‘Can’t figure you at all. Must be a proper Dally idea you’re working on.’.
at Dally, adj.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 176: A double bed in a unit of the Flaming Roo Motel.
at flaming, adj.1
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 105: I suppose a man got a bit full and acted a bit crazy.
at full, adj.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 1: ‘Little Willy was getting himself quite well organised with that dark-haired bit.’ [...] ‘Any minute now Little Willy should be unwrappping the goods.’.
at goods, n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 107: Justice must be seen to be done, but it definitely shouldn’t be seen grogging up with the people it had just inflicted punishment on.
at grog up (v.) under grog, v.1
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 157: No half-pie work, you hear?
at half-pie, adj.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 93: If a joker turned up at Court with his defense counsel [...] surely he deserved more than the judgement of a visiting magistrate to decide he should go into the hinaki.
at hinaki, n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 48: A damned shame indeed for a man who’d scrapped enough in the past to normally avoid the receiving end of [...] a king-hit.
at king hit, n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 146: Everyone would laugh and make snide remarks. I’d feel a proper Joe Hunt.
at joe (hunt), n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 108: Why don’t we get him to jack up a list of all the things we could do.
at jack up, v.3
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 26: How much geli’ did you put in that last charge?
at jelly, n.2
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 123: ‘Jug, please, mate.’ [...] A good slow steady pull on the glass to dampen the fire and he was ready for company.
at jug, n.1
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 108: Don’ be such a spoil-sport and misery guts.
at miserygut(s), n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 25: Finish off a man’s grog and then destroy his boat! [...] Mongrel!
at mongrel, n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 171: Dirty, mongrel drunkards!
at mongrel, adj.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 27: Moses wept! What’s wrong with my . . .?
at Moses!, excl.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 33: I reckon you ought to be able to spare a couple of notes.
at note, n.2
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 167: Danny had got a bit stroppy for a while when some of the jokers had tried to nugget his knackers.
at nugget, v.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 53: The pen-pushers had picked on a subject that was bound to invoke controversy.
at pen-pusher, n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 85: Do you blame me for letting him get full of piss?
at piss, n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 148: No more beer for these two ratbags.
at ratbag, n.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 125: Too right, sport.
at too right!, excl.
[NZ] G. Johnston Fish Factory 36: The snooty bitch is not going to use it to buy scungy violets.
at scungy, adj.
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