Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Constab Ballads choose

Quotation Text

[US] C. McKay in Constab Ballads n.p.: [song title] Quashie to Buccra.
at backra, n.
[US] C. McKay ‘Knutsford Park Races’ Constab Ballads 59: Big-tree boys a t’row dem dice.
at big-tree boy, n.
[US] C. McKay ‘Knutsford Park Races’ Constab Ballads 82: Big-tree. A certain big tree in Kingston is the resort of idlers and vicious characters.
at big-tree, adj.
[US] C. McKay ‘Bumming’ Constab Ballads 34: Of all the people I don’t like, / A chief one is de bummer [...] Ef we are smokin’ cigarette, / He wants a part of it too.
at bummer, n.3
[US] C. McKay ‘Flat-Foot Drill’ Constab Ballads 13: Right tu’n, you damn’ bungo brut!
at bungo, adj.
[US] C. McKay ‘Flat-Foot Drill’ in Constab Ballads 13: Shet you’ mout’! A wan no chat!
at chat, n.3
[US] C. McKay ‘Disillusioned’ Constab Ballads 44: Foolish, foolish young gals who / T’ink a constab could be true!
at constab, n.
[US] C. McKay ‘A Recruit on the Corpy’ Constab Ballads 50: Me an’ de corpy drink we rum.
at corp, n.1
[US] C. McKay Constab Ballads 37: [song title] De Dog-Driver’s Frien’.
at dog-driver (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] C. McKay ‘Pay Day’ Constab Ballads 55: From a poun’ do’n to a gill.
at gill, n.3
[US] C. McKay ‘Cotch Donkey’ Constab Ballads 47: Ef dem summons me, / Mek me pay few mac.
at mac, n.
[US] C. McKay ‘Me Whoppin’ Big-Tree Boy’ Constab Ballads 49: How you sell wha’ no wut gill self to black naygur fur a bob; / But me eboe-light we’ sure talk, of dat you can have no doubt.
at black nigger (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] C. McKay ‘Bumming’ Constab Ballads 35: I proud ’nuff o me uniform / Not ever to be a rummy.
at nuff, adj.
[US] C. McKay ‘Flat-Foot Drill’ Constab Ballads 13: Fabour say you pick up nong, / Sence you nyamin’ Depôt fat.
at nyam, v.
[US] C. McKay ‘Pay Day’ Constab Ballads 53: Man dem, wid dem hungry gut, / Six long fortnight nyam me rash.
at nyam, n.
[US] C. McKay ‘Bumming’ Constab Ballads 35: Don’t cringe an’ fawn ’fore richer men, / Deir pelf’s not wort’ a tittle.
at pelf, n.
[US] C. McKay in Constab Ballads n.p.: [song title] Quashie to Buccra.
at quashie, n.
[US] C. McKay ‘Disillusioned’ Constab Ballads 45: Will you leave me, heartless Dan, / For a risky to’n woman? [Ibid.] 90: risky: flirty.
at risky, adj.
[US] C. McKay ‘Bumming’ Constab Ballads 35: I proud ’nuff o me uniform / Not ever to be a rummy.
at rummy, n.1
[US] C. McKay ‘Flat-Foot Drill’ Constab Ballads 13: Fabour say you pick up nong, / Sence you [...] sleep ’pon so-so mat, / But a mean fe pull you tongue.
at so-so, adj.2
[US] C. McKay ‘A Recruit on the Corpy’ Constab Ballads 50: Last night me gie ’m de last-last tup.
at tup, n.2
no more results