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[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 41 : Ag, isn’t he an ugly oaf? [Ibid.] 202: Ag-no-what, it can’t be done.
at ag!, excl.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 41: Come on, arse-kisser, now’s your chance.
at ass-kisser, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 145: I’ll bag a few guinea fowl for the pot.
at bag, v.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 156: Jis-man, he’d been bakgat; more daring even than James Bond.
at bakgat, adj.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 62: Pa! It was Pa who’d aimed at the Bushman. Blerrydronkieboozingbastard. What would Ma say? [Ibid.] 66: How the blerryhell do you think you’re going to get me back without a team to pull this focken cart?
at blerry, adj.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 141: Andre was handy with those sledgehammer fists of his, but his beer boep would definitely cost him.
at boep, n.2
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 128: Kaffirs don’t like Boesmanne; Boesmanne are frightened of Kaffirs. Boesmanne and Kaffirs don’t like Boers.
at boesman, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 41 : Don’t think I haven’t noticed you boetie-boetie my Pa.
at boetie-boetie, adj.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 148: Okes said there was nothing like a bit of brown meat.
at brown meat (n.) under brown, adj.2
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 145: So, Bumfluff, show me this cave.
at bum-fluff, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 141: You never seen a Chevy before? [...] Just fetched her off the boat in Durbs. Beauty, hey?
at Chevvy, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 141: You never seen a Chevy before? [...] Just fetched her off the boat in Durbs. Beauty, hey?
at Durbs, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 164: To the Botha’s [...] for a goef. They’re away for the weekend. They’ll never know we’ve been in their swimming pool.
at goef, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 37: Jissus, his leg hurt.
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 76 : Ja, jong, Kaffir, don’t you worry.
at jong, n.1
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 39: They’d been drinking brandy and coke, and talking the usual nonsense, ‘Hey, you-ous. Heard what the kaffirmeid said to the bishop?’.
at kaffirmeid (n.) under kaffir, adj.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 144: I can see Auntie’s still a kaffirboetie.
at kaffirboetie, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 148: They wore nothing underneath [...] Mmm, would the little one have those long flaps like her mother had in her poes?
at poes, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 145: ‘I’ve bagged a focking lot of birds, Ouseun.’ He giggled like a hyena. ‘When your worm’s been in half the places my python has, then we can talk.’.
at python, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 202: Ja, a rooinek Bezuidenhout, but toemaar, his heart’s in the right place.
at rooinek, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 361: Pa said that was because she was German. [...] Pa called her ‘Sauerkraut’.
at sauerkraut, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 188: I read the other day that some Tukkies professor advised kaffirs against using sheets. Something about it being bad for the shine on their skin.
at Tukkie, n.
[UK] C. Miller Salt and Honey 145: ‘I’ve bagged a focking lot of birds, Ouseun.’ He giggled like a hyena. ‘When your worm’s been in half the places my python has, then we can talk.’.
at worm, n.
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