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Nil Carborundum choose

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[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act II: I don’t give a tuppenny fart for your soldiering, your stirring [...] and your bull.
at not care a fart, v.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act I: Three bags full.
at three bags full, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: Watch that Bashi Bazook there doesn’t kill anyone, coporal.
at bashi-bazouk, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: That’s right, Nev boyo.
at boyo, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: I suppose you realise that’s my leave gone for a burton?
at go for a Burton (v.) under Burton, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: Are you trying to make a charlie out of Neville?
at charlie, n.4
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: There’s that rotten nit again with his chatterbox.
at chatterbox, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: It’s been known for a screw to go in the chokeys and give a few screams all by himself, just to tone up the holy terror in the lads’ bellies.
at chokey, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act II: Don’t be a clod.
at clod, n.1
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: [We hear Neville’s voice in the stillness, in a cod-Indian wail:] Sixteen annas make one rupee / Seventeen annas one buckshee.
at cod, adj.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: You’re my prisoner, cookie.
at cookie, n.1
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act I: They kept cracking on they’d lost the key, but in the end they had to give in.
at crack on, v.2
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act I: I try to keep one good cook in each mess [...] That burglarious young cretin that’s just gone was one of the best.
at cretin, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act I: Oh blimey crikey, I’m a desperate man.
at crikey!, excl.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: One squeak, buster, and you get it. Cripes.
at cripes!, excl.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act II: albert: No, you had the key. neville: Did I heck. [Ibid.] Act III: albert: Hey, Taff, will you do us a favour? taffy: Will I hell.
at did I...!, excl.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act I: What do you know about it, you wet-eared erk!
at erk, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act I: Shut your face.
at shut one’s face (v.) under face, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act II: Every flamer ... except Taffy, and he’s too dense to have any malice in him.
at flamer, n.3
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: It’s as soft as cowflop this side, Jack.
at flop, n.6
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act I: I have me suspicions about him. Too friggin fly by half.
at fly, adj.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: No ambition and frigg-all interest.
at frig, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: Nev, there’s some frigger in there.
at frigger, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act II: He friggin knows about them friggin eggs I’ll swear.
at frigging, adj.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: Two hundred howling fuzzie wuzzies just went for Bert here.
at fuzzy-wuzzy, n.1
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: Look at that rotten gannet.
at gannet, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: We get no rations for gash cups of tea, Taffy. Gerrout.
at gash, adj.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act II: No, what’s behind it all, the Glasshouse and you by yourself with the M.P.s and their big boots.
at glasshouse, n.
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: Friggin gremlins.
at gremlin, n.1
[UK] H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act II: You’re the one that’s been giving off all the heehaw about the system.
at hee-haw, n.
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