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Pairs and Loners choose

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[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 13: Pig’s bum to your reputation!
at pig’s arse!, excl.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 91: Big Stafford [...] was built like a bush lavatory.
at built, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 160: Yeah, he’s all right, I s’pose, for a bush rat.
at bush rat (n.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 164: Ah, cut out the cock and hand it over.
at cock, n.5
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 80: My marble’s good there for a cushy job and a few quid picking apples and pears. It’s a cop.
at cop, n.2
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 88: I was in the dub dying when a flattened cigarette packet came sliding under the door.
at dub, n.4
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 40: What’s the grouch against me?
at grouch, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 81: There’s some blokes on the track you just can’t get along with. Nuts, hums, crawlers, top-offs, twisters.
at hum, n.2
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 97: Look, the stuff [a drug] he give you, that was – well – what you might call a jimmy-stopper. See? And sure, it was the same thing as he give Big Stafford, all right, only there was more of it. And so it acted as a jimmy-starter, if you get me. It was all in the dosage, don’t you see?
at jimmies, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 81: There was a lousebound sod I was with out of Angledool one year. Gord, was he something mother should have drowned.
at lousebound (adj.) under louse, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 80: My marble’s good there for a cushy job and a few quid picking apples and pears. It’s a cop.
at good marble (n.) under marble, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 115: Looks like he’s cracked his melon on that rock there.
at melon, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 25: Who do you think you’re putting it over? We’re not nincs, you know. We’re with it all the way.
at nincom, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 16: ‘I pity you.’ ‘Get ripped,’ he said. ‘What’s more’, I said, ‘you’re unintelligent.’.
at get ripped! (excl.) under ripped, adj.1
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 159: It can only make him ropeable enough to come down and take a bite out of you.
at ropable, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 111: That scrousher, that rough-house annie, what’s she got so uppety about? See the kisser on it!
at roughhouse, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 111: That scrousher, that rough-house annie, what’s she got so uppety about? See the kisser on it!
at scroucher, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 16: Do you know who I am, breeze-shooter?
at shoot the breeze (v.) under shoot, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 100: ‘What have they done, Mr Minto?’ ‘Skinned me,’ I said. ‘Shook me down for two hundred quid.’.
at skin, v.1
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 12: All you can do is skite. You’re the biggest skiter in this town.
at skite, v.1
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 12: All you can do is skite. You’re the biggest skiter in this town.
at skiter, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 85: Take a little walk alongside the rattler and squiz the tickets on each truck.
at squizz, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Pairs and Loners 22: ‘What goes on in this dump, anyway?’ ‘Sweet eff-ay,’ the barman said.
at sweet fuck all (n.) under sweet, adj.1
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