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[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: Wimmen! Do me a favour!
at do me a favour, phr.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers II i: I’ve made up me mind ... I’m gonna be doin’ something – not just muckin’ around.
at muck about, v.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: She said when ’e mucked about wiv ’er ’e couldn’t do nothin’.
at muck about, v.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers III i: I believe you... defeat yourself: up against it with your mates just now, instead of producing a better essay than Adams’s you write three lines.
at up against, phr.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: It’s nerve and brain. Thinkin’ it up, plannin’ it, then doin’ it there in broad daylight in the open street and not leavin’ off till you’ve bagged every tanner.
at bag, v.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers III i: ’E’ll thieve, and blow the tickle like it ain’t ’is, then thieve and thieve again till he’s copped and bangled.
at bangle, v.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: Yeah, they got a name; rammin’ vans in daylight and bashin’ up the old blokes in ’em.
at bash up (v.) under bash, v.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: cragge: Goal. adams (hugging cragge): Beauty.
at beauty!, excl.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers III iii: You’re born down here and think you’re goin’ to be big.
at big, adj.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: You’re the big’ ead, ain’t ya.
at big head, n.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers III i: If you hadn’t blabbed about bloody tarts we wouldn’t be here.
at blab, v.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I i: Look at you, bloody boots, holding up the school gate.
at boots, n.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: Bossed about by a duck-arsed public school bloke I ’ated.
at boss, v.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers III i: Once upon a time, ’e ’ad a business. Then ’is business bust.
at bust, v.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I i: Brooksie’s in the caff. Wants us there.
at caf, n.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers Act II: Look, if you don’t shut your cake’ole, I’ll do you.
at cakehole (n.) under cake, n.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers III i: Colman’s a politician. ’E just kept watch in the graveyard, so he’s clean if the law starts askin’.
at clean, adj.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: You muddy-minded clot over there, you wouldn’t understand.
at clot, n.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers III i: Well, good night, cock.
at cock, n.2
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: You four-kind son of a bitch. You crud.
at crud, n.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: colman: (to cragge) ’Ave you done Helen? brook: (lewd) ’E done ’imself. Cost ’im nothin’.
at do oneself off (v.) under do, v.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: You teach to make dough and that’s teaching.
at dough, n.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: cragge: What’s swearin’ got to do with football? brook: The old boy can’t play a bloke who’ll go into decent people’s pavilion’s droppin’ blue lights can he?
at drop blue lights (v.) under drop, v.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers II i: ’E ain’t ’ad a chance to say a thing yet. Will you dry up?
at dry up, v.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: Bossed about by a duck-arsed public school bloke I ’ated.
at duck-arsed (adj.) under duck, n.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers Act II: I’d be a sittin’ duck for the cops wiv that bike and you know it.
at sitting duck, n.
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: colman: ’E was best on the field last night. brook: Best on the field my sister’s fanny.
at my fanny! (excl.) under fanny, n.1
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers III iii: You go after the big things you know about, like rock ’n roll and football; even fiddlin’.
at fiddle, v.2
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: You got off wiv ’Elen?
at get off with (v.) under get off, v.2
[UK] B. Reckord Skyvers I ii: Get this thickie: they don’t teach nothing that’s any good to us.
at get this! (excl.) under get, v.
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