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[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 97: The beautiful cake was homemade (or she was a Dutchman).
at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 135: It’s not for every Tom Dick and Harry to suppose he’s marksman enough to engage in that shooting match.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 154: Somewhere in this place there’s what I believe they call a cat bar. You may prefer to pick up something out of there.
at cat bar (n.) under cat, n.1
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 87: By profession he’s a tank-artist [...] That’s what they used to call a cracksman.
at cracksman, n.1
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 53: Tell the world to go and fluff off.
at fluff off, v.1
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 83: Did Alan know how it all tied in with the Pig Island story?
at Pig Island, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 29: Jasper’s jacked himself up a bloody good pozzie.
at jack oneself up (v.) under jack up, v.3
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 87: He’s had a bellyful of laggings.
at lagging, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 153: Booze [...] makes you feel matey – and oh yes, two senses intended.
at matey, adj.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 29: Jasper’s jacked himself up a bloody good pozzie.
at possie, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 105: So he plied her with wine, and he plied her with cake, / And he slipped it over Molly coming home from the wake.
at slip it to (v.) under slip, v.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 87: By profession he’s a tank-artist [...] That’s what they used to call a cracksman.
at tank artist (n.) under tank, n.2
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 135: A young man needs his wits about him when he embarks on that poor old tramp steamer called Higher Education, laddie. She’s all out of date even if she is patched and tarted up.
at tart up (v.) under tart, v.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 156: Mother’s milk – that’s why it’s so sacred [...] Baby wants his titty.
at titty, n.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 124: If it came to that one of his reasons for wiping university was a senior lecturer who had failed to avoid the same gross error.
at wipe, v.
[NZ] F. Sargeson Hangover 34: ‘Cornish pasty,’ she said. ‘Yum yum.’.
at yum!, excl.
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