1996 H. Roth From Bondage 133: You don’t mean to tell me one o’ those fat I-talian ladies [...] is goin’ to step back heah and put the ahm on us.at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 256: He could – in imagination – ask Larry the filthiest questions: Hey, Larry, did you ever try back-scuttling Edith? I have to back-scuttle my kid cousin Stella most of the time.at backscuttle, v.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 100: He could give Stella, who was there with the rest, a real backscuttle, just what he needed.at backscuttle, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 340: I can walk into a beanery with a nickel. Some of ’em’ll give you som’n stale with a cuppa java.at beanery, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 273: What did the Irish nationalists do about Yeats and about Synge’s plays? They excoriated them, they blistered them. Please!at blister, v.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 386: You had been self-supporting for I don’t know how many years. Whereas I – Christ, what a blob!at blob, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 174: ‘When all of a sudden I went blotto,’ said Larry. The spell of unconsciousness must have lasted only a few seconds.at blotto, adj.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 280: Ira took notice of Dalton [...] who was drinking a glass of bootleg gin.at bootleg, adj.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 279: He had gotten his lumps in the shop, lumps on the coconut.at coconut, n.1
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 281: The newspapers were just as full today as they were when he was conked on the bean with newspaper bludgeons.at conk, v.2
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 384: ‘Just before we left El Paso. I bought three packages.’ ‘Creeps’ sake. Ever providential.’ He sighed admiringly.at for cripes’ sake!, excl.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 103: Ira had to admire the kid’s crust, speaking in such tones to Ida.at crust, n.2
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 380: He didn’t expect me to hold up under a third degree. You know, that’s when the cops grill you, beat the hell out of you to make you confess.at third degree, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 77: Sporting a Bull Durham sack on his dink, because, said Weasel reverently, Yonnie had a dose of clap.at dink, n.2
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 317: She doesn’t like walking on the roads there in the mountains, with cow dreck to step in.at dreck, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 234: Leo was the worst dub at plane geometry Ira had ever known.at dub, n.5
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 215: There, in fair weather, freshmen and sophomores, ‘frosh’ and ‘sophs,’ attired in their World War uniforms, marched and countermarched.at frosh, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 246: What the hell is a white man doin’ on a ginzo job like that? [Ibid.] 277: You ginzos are always talkin’ to yourselves.at ginzo, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 47: I could never marry him, he’s a goy. [Ibid.] 315: ‘Oh, such goyim as they are,’ Hannah disparaged.at goy, n.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 315: I don’t care if it’s a white dress or a pink dress. It’s a goyish wedding.at goy, adj.
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 268: Grease monkey working over a pit under a subway train.at grease monkey (n.) under grease, n.1
1996 H. Roth From Bondage 77: The sewer cleaner handed his helper the tin beer bucket. ‘Will yez rush the growler, me b’y.’.at rush the growler (v.) under growler, n.3