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The Ship Inspector choose

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[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 36: Conker Connolly said that The Barrel was a complete psycho and should be put away.
at put away, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 68: He looked at me solemnly, ‘Don’t make a bags of it now’.
at bags, n.1
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 210: A cluster of small white stars splattered onto the windscreen. ‘My brand new windscreen. The little bolixes.’.
at ballocks, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 110: ‘The country’s banjaxed,’ the woman said. ‘We’re a banana republic without the bananas.’.
at banjaxed (adj.) under banjax, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 2: When I was at university I would sometimes go on the bounce and catch a bus or a train somewhere.
at on the bounce (adv.) under bounce, n.1
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 157: They hit a Brit submarine.
at Brit, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 37: I’m telling you, there’ll be no more cogging the homework in my class, naha.
at cog, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 204: Yis are a bit loud and your man can’t sing but yis are good crack.
at crack, n.1
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 9: I had crapped my trousers in front of the whole school.
at crap, v.2
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 68: I’d rather eat a farmer’s arse through a hedge than go up in one of those things.
at could eat a farmer’s arse (through a hedge) under eat, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 43: I’ve a good mind to go round there now and eat the head off the lot of them.
at eat one’s head off (v.) under eat, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 205: ‘Fuck off.’ ‘Shut your face.’.
at shut one’s face (v.) under face, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 112: You’re the bitch whose husband ran off with a floosie.
at floozy, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 2: She just smiles [...] and tells me not to be such a fusspot.
at fusspot, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 95: All right, let her go.
at let her go (Gallagher)!, excl.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 210: Mao leaned over my shoulder and roared ‘Ger-on-i-mo’ at the top of his voice.
at Geronimo!, excl.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 42: He said he had seen our dad staggering out of the Tall Ships, langered out of his mind.
at langered, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 83: The only reason everyone gets on so well with you is because you’re a lickarse.
at lick-arse (n.) under lick, v.2
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 98: Take a good hard look at your brother, that’s what happens to you when you spend all your time listening to long-haired trash.
at longhaired, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 39: The only thing to do is to go directly to Your Man Upstairs. Now. Our Father who art in heaven...
at Your Man Upstairs, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 204: Yis a bit loud and your man can’t sing but yis are good crack.
at your man, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 156: Trust a proddie to come back from the dead.
at Proddy, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 85: Conker had had to stuff his own hands into his pockets to stop The Barrel feeling him up. ‘He tried to queer me,’ Conker said. ‘I think we should at least tell the newspapers.’.
at queer, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 152: ‘Will ye give it a rest,’ Hatchet said.
at give it a rest! (excl.) under rest, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 6: When I catch one of them at it, I’ll shag him overboard.
at shag, v.2
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 79: It’s only a record [...] Keep your shirt on.
at keep your shirt on! (excl.) under shirt, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 110: You always get a few sourpusses.
at sourpuss, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 158: Stacks of them. Absolute stacks.
at stacks, n.1
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 140: Look at it. It’s just a teenchy weenchy kitten.
at teensie-weensie, adj.
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