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[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 47: That daffy nympho Myra and Adam’s off ox – what could he possibly do about them?
at Adam’s off-ox (n.) under Adam, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 272: In here brawling over a little money, hanging onto your wife’s apron strings when you should be out there batting for the old Loons.
at apron-strings, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 133: ‘I think I can convince each of you that you, too, have certain responsibilities.’ ‘Not this baby,’ spoke up Len Sickles.
at baby, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 10: There are scalps that itch like blazes.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 93: Harold Harper, the newspaperman who forged a career by charging across the breastworks of a nation.
at breastworks, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 213: He’ll snap his cookies.
at pop one’s cookies (v.) under cookie, n.1
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 137: ‘That crumb bum!’ he said. ‘Him manager!’.
at crumbum, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 19: ‘Dig the Ancient One!’ Myra cried to the rest of the room. ‘Ain’t he lush!’.
at dig, v.3
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 41: ‘I be a suck-egg mule,’ he finally said.
at suck-egg, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 8: ‘How you fixed now?’ Eric asked him. ‘Empty,’ said Doom gloomily.
at empty, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 131: He wears a falsie.
at falsies, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 120: It’ll get more laughs than La Gardy reading the funny papers.
at funny pages, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 172: I ain‘t going to pitch base ball for no G.D. cat.
at G.D., adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 42: Don’t be a square. Don’t be goony.
at goony, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 131: I’ll get down to the old grind. The daily ordeal.
at grind, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 19: There’s a sloppy at Bonwit’s and Myra yearns for it. It’s zoomy! It’s groovy! It’s beauteous! It’s lush! It’s eighteen bucks!
at groovy, adj.2
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 103: Hit the road, toad! [...] Get out of this house!
at hit the road, v.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 182: Holy Jeez! It’s a wonder to me you don’t get arrested.
at holy gee! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 41: ‘What a hunk!’ breathed Myra. ‘What a hunka meat!’.
at hunk, n.1
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 20: There’s a sloppy at Bonwit’s and Myra yearns for it. It’s zoomy! It’s groovy! It’s beauteous! It’s lush! It’s eighteen bucks!
at sloppy Joe, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 94: After seeing her on the stage for the first time he [...] wrote ‘What a pair of lung warts!’.
at lung warts (n.) under lung, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 20: There’s a sloppy at Bonwit’s and Myra yearns for it. It’s zoomy! It’s groovy! It’s beauteous! It’s lush! It’s eighteen bucks!
at lush, adj.3
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 23: I’m going to throw you so that your mildewed carcass wraps itself around that tree.
at mildewed, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 84: She was as sexy as a mink.
at mink, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 271: Listen, you mink in sheep’s clothing.
at mink, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 25: That [...] is none of your snot-nosed business.
at snot-nosed, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 47: That daffy nympho Myra.
at nympho, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 120: That shot will be the big panic of the year on the screen [...] It’ll get more laughs than La Gardy reading the funny papers.
at panic, n.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 205: She began saying ‘eyether’ and ‘nyether’ and dropping her r’s like a pantywaist debutante.
at pantywaisted, adj.
[US] H.A. Smith Rhubarb 41: ‘What a hunk!’ breathed Myra. ‘What a hunka meat!’.
at piece of meat (n.) under piece, n.
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