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[UK] J. Poller Reach 37: I [...] was consequently seen as eccentric and effeminate, at worst reviled as an out-and-out fag.
at out-and-out, adj.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 79: I awaken to the sounds of Clare billing up: the rustle of the Rizla and tobacco; the pungent smell of burnt hashish.
at bill (up), v.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 7: ‘Blast!’ says Judy, who, having somehow stubbed her toe, hops into the room.
at blast!, excl.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 119: Who would you rather boff – her or me?
at boff, v.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 83: I bump into [...] a man I’ve never met before doing bong hits on the kitchen floor.
at bong, n.1
[UK] J. Poller Reach 17: I met Liz at a Newnham bop.
at bop, n.1
[UK] J. Poller Reach 13: Why is it that I can effortlessly shoot the breeze with Steve and Clare [...] but, for the life of me, I’m unable to sustain a conversation with my father for more than one minute.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[UK] J. Poller Reach 16: Due to the extreme angle of my neck and her bobbing backside, my nose keeps coming up against her ticklish – all-too-literal – bumfluff.
at bum-fluff, n.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 38: Anthony is wearing [...] white toweling socks. ‘Anthony! You crazy hepcat, you.’.
at hep-cat, n.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 151: Rosy, a chesty Kiwi girl who generally stops for a chat.
at chesty, adj.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 40: I’m obviously a closet straight.
at closet, adj.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 148: Mum, it takes a lot more than dressing respectably [...] to cut the mustard as a mother!
at cut the mustard, v.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 143: Damn straight.
at damn straight! (excl.) under damn, adv.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 100: Cut to the stranger: Well I’ll be darned.
at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 19: I would’ve gladly gone down on her for days if only she’d let me.
at go down, v.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 84: While I was takin’ a dump, I got to thinkin’ about the shameful nature of ’uman waste.
at take a dump (v.) under dump, n.4
[UK] J. Poller Reach 96: You got that, you fucking cocksucking nancy-boy faggot!
at faggot, n.1
[UK] J. Poller Reach 39: ‘It’s not ... bad for you,’ I say like an ageing dopefiend lethargically defending his chosen drug.
at fiend, n.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 139: Let’s say [...] you get a whole bunch of parking tickets and get in a fix with the filth.
at filth, n.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 110: ‘Bloody good stuff,’ says Judy, already floozled.
at floozled, adj.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 92: Sad, single women, who are [...] in their parlance ‘gagging for a shag’.
at gagging for (it) under gagging for, phr.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 17: For all our pagan fuckfests, when fully clad I wanted nothing to do with her.
at fuckfest (n.) under fuck, n.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 8: Fuck fairies [...] Kids want sex, drugs, violence. Big fuck-off guns.
at fuck-off, adj.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 111: ‘Way to go!’ shouts someone. ‘Fuck, yeah,’ cries another.
at fuck yes! (excl.) under fuck!, excl.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 140: Outside [...] I spot Kirsty’s boyfriend doing gas with a wasted-looking tramp.
at gas, n.1
[UK] J. Poller Reach 45: Don’t worry. We’ll get this fuck.
at get, v.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 111: ‘Way to go!’ shouts someone. ‘Fuck, yeah,’ cries another.
at way to go!, excl.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 73: What’s the scuttlebutt? [...] You know – the rumour, the goss.
at goss, n.2
[UK] J. Poller Reach 57: His father [...] was a sot; his mother, by all accounts, a twopenny-halfpenny whore.
at twopenny-halfpenny, adj.
[UK] J. Poller Reach 95: Ha. You almost had me there.
at have, v.
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