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The Chocolate Frog choose

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[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog (1973) 40: Shirker: Remember? Tosser: (wryly) Whadder you think? Course I do [...] all of it. Shirker: (doubtfully) I reckon yer falsin’, china.
at false, v.
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog (1973) 17: Shirker: Hey? Oh, yeah [...] a grouse’d go well, all right. Tosser: Like, a tailor-made, I mean [...] Shirker: Yeah. I know what yer mean. A grouse’d go all right.
at grouse, n.3
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog (1973) 50: ‘Ahh, don’t tell me! Aww, Christ, no! ‘What’se matter? You gone yarra, or somethin’?’.
at yarra, adj.
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog 25: I mean you bein’ pinched for street-fightin’ [...] yer must be a real litle ball-tearer.
at ball-tearer (n.) under balls, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog 104: Bulla: ‘All I do know about you, is that yer an old chat: a drunken old deadbeat bum that tells war stories’.
at chat, n.4
[NZ] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog 32: ‘[I]t ain’t just any sort of maggot who gets to be a dog ... only those that lag other people ... who cooperate with bastards in uniform ... see?’.
at dog, n.2
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog (gloss.).
at paper doll, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog 36: Shirker Our mate ’ere seems ter like people [...] Tosser Like ’em! I reckon he does! He’d kiss a Jap on Anzac Day [...] red ’ot poof, fer mine.
at you wouldn’t give it to a Jap on ANZAC Day under Jap, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog.
at snork, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog (glossary).
at back a tail (v.) under tail, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil Chocolate Frog (glossary).
at worker, n.2
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: I’ll shove it where yer boyfriend’ll find it.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act IV: sweeper: What would you say if I showed you a bottle of after-shave that looked like a fair dinkum hand grenade? [...] mick: Like, Boom!sweeper: Exactly like a real bunger.
at bunger, n.1
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: senior: And sleep in your pyjamas! [...] Or I’ll put you on the mat, Jenkins! sam: Yessir! On the mat, sir.
at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act II: Dinner at the Chow’s first.
at Chow, adj.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: sam: (raising two fingers, crossed) Crim’s honour, sir.
at crim, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: senior: Have a wash! [...] Have it twice! sam: Yessir! A double dobie, sir!
at dhobi, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act II: Aw, come on, pie-face.
at pie-face, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: Swamper leaned out from the bottom bunk at Wocko and said . . . he said, ‘Ah, you’re over the bloody fence!’.
at over the fence under fence, n.1
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: That’s what I was busy not thinking about when you started with yer scratching and Juicy-Fruiting.
at juicy fruit, n.2
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: Ahh! You’re not the full deener.
at full quid, the (n.) under full, adj.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: If yer gonna dream, well yer might as well order the grouse, hey?
at grouse, the, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: Grouse, mate. Grouse!
at grouse, adj.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: sam: How do I look? mick: Shithouse. Yer a grub.
at grub, n.1
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act I: I wonder who’s looking in her eyes [...] Listening to her half-pied lies.
at half-pie, adj.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: I reckon. Top idiots. Imbos.
at imbo, n.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: Well, strike me lucky! [...] Get it? Strike me lucky . . . Lucky Strikes!
at strike me lucky! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act II: She’s got some grouse stuff [...] I’ll say that for the bitch. On the never-never, of course.
at on the never-never (system) under never-never, the, n.2
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: I have had a rough trot, sir, all me miserable life, sir, and it’s left me about tuppence ha’penny short of the deener.
at twopence halfpenny short of the deener under ...short of..., adj.
[Aus] J. McNeil How Does Your Garden Grow Act III: Here, old soldier, lemme do it.
at old soldier, n.
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