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[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 139: He found that the silence of the empty Dorm disturbed him more than the schoolroom buzz.
at buzz, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 180: Wasn’t it pretty cheesey in spots?
at cheesy, adj.2
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 238: Gossip had it that Max was crazy about Zilpha O’Malley, the cosey-looking little waitress.
at cosey, adj.1
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 314: He hadn’t crabbed the act.
at crab someone’s act (v.) under crab, v.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 154: The whole point is there won’t be any cribbers if we’re on our honor.
at cribber, n.1
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 204: It made Ethelbert furious, sometimes, to watch them [...] using old Herakles as a sort of punching bag in their kid-fests.
at -fest, sfx
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 8: Footy. You know. Different from soccer. Lot rougher game. I call it footy when I mean not-soccer-football, see? [Ibid.] 11: He started playing footy [...] making touchdowns and sending the ole pigskin sailing between the uprights for goals.
at footie, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 217: All that pat-a-cake stuff [...] and footie-footie—under the robe!
at footsie-footsie, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 26: Boys with gimp are those for whom studies are not easy, yet who manage, by their gimp, to attain high rank.
at gimp, n.1
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 82: I’ve got to grind on Greek.
at grind, v.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 26: Naw, he’s just a greasy grind!
at grind, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 28: He was the guy that started the Ikey Hunts. [...] ‘Jew Hunt! Get that Jew!’.
at ikey, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 318: Dirdy little mick! Never home. Keeps joy-girls – ’partment in town.
at joy girl (n.) under joy, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 36: Some fellas [...] didn’t mind being lemons [...] They got a kick out of the dirty cracks and Katzenjammer antics that made them lemons.
at katzenjammer, adj.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 9: Oh! that’s kippy!
at kippy, adj.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 189: I’ve got an idea that’s a lollapaloosa!
at lallapaloosa, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 36: Some fellas [...] didn’t mind being lemons [...] They got a kick out of the dirty cracks and Katzenjammer antics that made them lemons.
at lemon, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 11: His pa was something pretty nobby in the Penn Railroad.
at nobby, adj.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 110: Well, Chuck old socks, you’re rooming with an owl.
at old socks (n.) under old, adj.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 31: He spat a big oyster of spittle on Max’s trousers.
at oyster, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 285: To think: old Tony [...] the finest person he knew! turned down by a goddam girl for the sake of a... a ... parlor python!
at parlor snake (n.) under parlor, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 22: He looks like a first-former. Sickly, anaemic-looking pee-wee. The new kids call him Ethel!
at pee-wee, n.2
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 154: He hasn’t peeped.
at peep, v.2
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 8: You just take the ole pigskin and tuck it in your belly like this.
at pigskin, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 24: He’d be a prune in School [...] always grinning—taking it from everybody. God! his brother a prune!
at prune, n.
[US] Philip Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 213: All you have to do to sk-k-kunk an Atheist is to point to the stars and say, ‘Who m-m-made those?’.
at skunk, v.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 315: ‘Me? I got a snootful.’ He grinned.
at have a snootful (v.) under snootful, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 201: ‘Aw dry up!’ ‘To the can, stinkbomb!’ ‘Go soak your head!’.
at go soak your head! (excl.) under soak, v.1
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 200: Well you dirty sarcastic stink-bomb, you—.
at stink bomb (n.) under stink, n.
[US] P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 113: Gee, we stank, didn’t we?
at stink, v.
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