Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Word for Word choose

Quotation Text

[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 171: ‘She’ll be right up the boo-ay if we’re not lucky,’ Arthur said.
at up the boohai (adv.) under booai, n.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 253: I’d blown all my chips so it was a case of getting down to some hard yakker for a while.
at do one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 254: You weren’t actually married, of course. Not me, cob. She was keen enough, though.
at cob, n.6
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 221: ‘I’ll crack along,’ Harry said. ‘I don’t know where the time gets to, these days.’.
at crack on, v.1
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 253: It was hell’s own job rounding the bastards up.
at hell’s own (adj.) under hell, n.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 181: He knew the men still regarded him as a Homey, though it was well over thirty years since he’d left the Old Country.
at homey, n.1
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 184: Is that the fat hooer?
at hooer, n.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 189: What I want out of Temple is a decent bloody bite, right from the hop.
at from the hop under hop, n.1
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 236: All right joy-germ. What have you got to grizzle about?
at joy germ (n.) under joy, n.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 181: Been running round kicking up bobsy-die all morning.
at kick up bobsy-die (v.) under kick up, v.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 185: Proper bloody muck-up that’s going to be.
at muck-up, n.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 183: Grab a pew.
at take a pew (v.) under pew, n.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 171: Special Christmas cards for the very special customers, at very special prices; which means cost. After that we’re home on the pig’s back.
at on the pig’s back under pig, n.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 254: Mind you, she was in pod.
at in pod (adj.) under pod, n.1
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 174: His old man was pretty strict [...] Probably pukarooed any romances.
at puckeroo, adj.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 235: No show and fisho, I’d say.
at no show under show, n.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 253: They found her the next morning. She was well stonkered.
at stonkered, adj.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 182: He’s in a good swizz.
at swiz, n.2
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 71: I know you. It’s just the beer talking.
at it’s the beer talking under talk, v.
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 212: The whole idea’s up the wop.
at up the wop under wop, n.4
[NZ] R.M. Muir Word for Word 253: I’d blown all my chips so it was a case of getting down to some hard yakker for a while.
at yakka, n.
[NZ] Word for Word 🌐 It might look as though corny were one more piece of city slicker mockery of things rural, as in corncobber, a rustic and corncracker, a poor white Kentuckian. But the slang term corn is much older, and almost certainly influenced the jazz meaning.
at corncobber, n.
no more results