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[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 8: I watched him with the pitiful interest a sound man always feels for the down-and-outer.
at down-and-outer, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 49: It’s only we who have lived at the back of beyond who run across them.
at back of beyond (n.) under back, adv.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 139: And then to find he’d blown his brains out. Bad show.
at bad show! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 139: Well, I’m blowed!
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 141: He used to take our chaffing in the mildest way, blinking amiably at us from behind his spectacles.
at chaffing, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 47: Cleaned me out, Leyton [...] Ten thousand francs, my boy.
at clean out, v.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 59: I don’t go in for opium or coke or any other rotten dope.
at coke, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 145: She’s a corker for looks.
at corker, n.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 118: Don’t you think, Dick, that that radiographer was just a little too damn foolish to be quite genuine?
at damn, adv.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 27: Well, what the deuce did he want to barge me in the back for?
at what the deuce...?, phr.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 71: There’s a dude that calls himself Hildebrand wandering around.
at dude, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 30: I think, old son [...] that we have euchred the dear Baron.
at euchre, v.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 112: You can fix us up, Bury?
at fix up, v.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 187: You were in a pea-green funk.
at funk, n.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 78: But if any of his pals get gay, I rely on you.
at gay, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 71: ‘Holy Moses!’ he muttered.
at holy Moses! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 85: You laid him out as stiff as a piece of frozen mutton.
at lay out, v.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 71: Six of you – all drinking – would fairly put the lid on.
at put the lid on (v.) under lid, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 89: The fellow is just a low-down swine and bully.
at lowdown, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 83: Why, man – I wouldn’t have believed it possible!
at man, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 185: You don’t mean to say they’ve gone and messed it up?
at mess up, v.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 80: And he’s my pard, you son of a gun – don’t you forget it!
at pard, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 138: Dashed plucky thing on her part.
at plucky, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 60: There’s a dollar for the whisky. And if you don’t like the price you can take your poison away and throw it down the sink.
at poison, n.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 30: One thing the Baron did do with gusto, he punished the excellent South Sussex champagne.
at punish, v.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 74: You’ve got guts; you’ve got nerve, and I want to apologise here and now for ragging you.
at rag, v.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 188: You’re right, old Dick. I did rat this morning. I’ve never been in such a funk in my life.
at rat, v.2
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 185: ‘What on earth were you doing there?’ ‘Buying hats, silly, and other things.’.
at silly, n.1
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 86: You’d better think out a good epitaph [...] Something snappy and original.
at snappy, adj.
[UK] ‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 112: ‘Sure thing, Mr. Maitland,’ answered the other.
at sure thing!, excl.
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