Green’s Dictionary of Slang
P. Macgill ‘Down on the Dead End’ in Songs of the Dead End (1913) 130: His men and their fungous-white [sic] faces.at fungus, n.
P. Macgill ‘Hell!’ Songs of the Dead End (1913) 95: We have done our graft and stuck it, boys.at graft, n.2
P. Macgill ‘Ballad of the Long Dam’ Songs of the Dead End 95: Carroty Dan had some teeth bunged out.at bung, v.1
P. Macgill ‘Ballad of the Long Dam’ Songs of the Dead End 95: Carroty Dan had some teeth bunged out.at carrotty, adj.
P. Macgill ‘Padding It’ Songs of the Dead End 40: Hashing it out like a nigger on a two and a tanner sub, [...] grubbed on a sausage roll.at grub, v.1
P. Macgill ‘Ballad of the Long Dam’ Songs of the Dead End 95: [He] got boozed as he often did down at the nearest pub, / Primed to the neck he weltered back.at primed, adj.
P. Macgill ‘The Death of Moleskin’ Songs of the Dead End 106: Play the game, and stump the pence.at stump, v.3
P. Macgill ‘Ballad of the Long Dam’ Songs of the Dead End 94: ’Twas on the day the Long Dam burst, Moleskin he bummed his sub. / And went and got boozed.at sub, n.1
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