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[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 119: Anyway, didn’t he raise the dander of the head of the house, the big man, the head bottle-washer.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 120: You’re a bloody English bags, says your man in Irish.
at bags, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 240: Here is his black heart sitting there [...] in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse.
at banjaxed (adj.) under banjax, v.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 168: Can you beat it? asked Shorty.
at can you beat it? under beat, v.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 109: Oh by Gorrah you can’t cod me.
at begorra!, excl.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 121: Anyway, didn’t your man get into a dark corner with his butties till they hatched out a plan to best the sergeant.
at best, v.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 80: The whole place was burning like billyo in no time.
at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 166: I’ll knock your bloody block off if you say another word. Apologize!
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 121: He is standing as you find him with his blue pants and his big canal-barges on his two feet.
at canal boat, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 176: Answer me, you bloody little bowsy you! roared Shorty.
at bowsie, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 36: The old schoolmasters believed in the big stick. Oh, plenty of that boyo.
at boyo, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 15: We will feel ‘bucked’ when this animal flashes past the post at a fancy price.
at bucked, adj.2
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 227: A game bucko if you like. Be damned but he wouldn’t die!
at bucko, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 153: Life is very narrow without glasses and a burnt hand is a bugger.
at bugger, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 33: That is all my bum, said Brinsley.
at my bum! (excl.) under bum, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 159: All things were then put in order [...] the fire was tended with black peats, and fine crocks were settled with their butts in the air.
at butt, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 163: This is my friend and butty, Mr. Shorty Andrews.
at butty, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 75: Get back to hell to your prairies, says he, you pack of lousers who can be taken in by any fly-be-night with a fine story.
at fly-by-night, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 31: That was the pig’s whiskers. That was funny all right.
at cat’s whiskers, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 261: I never had such gas since I was a chiseller.
at chiseller, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 105: But by Christopher it’s not every man could see it, I’m bloody sure of that, one in a thousand.
at Christopher!, excl.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 286: The attic was infested by clocks.
at clock, n.2
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 217: He’s only an old cod.
at cod, n.2
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 109: Oh by Gorrah you can’t cod me.
at cod, v.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 82: Accused were described by Superintendant Clohessy as a gang of corner-boys whose horse-play in the streets was the curse of the Ringsend district.
at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds (1960) 121: Now be damned but hadn’t they a man in the tent there [...] a bloody dandy at the long jump.
at dandy, n.2
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 116: At the butt-end of a year’s wandering in the company of each other.
at fag end, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 81: Never thinking of the terrible danger we were in, every man jack of us, loading and shooting off our pistols like divils from below.
at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 247: No offence but that class of stuff is all my fanny.
at my fanny! (excl.) under fanny, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 261: I never had such gas since I was a chiseller.
at gas, n.1
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