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[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 23: I was mad as hornets at first, but since I’ve slept on the idea, I rather like it.
at ...a hornet under mad as..., adj.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 516: Bamfoozle all the rest of them as much as you please, lad.
at bamfoozle, v.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 12: The beauties!
at beauty, n.1
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 105: Begorry! The very idea!
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 442: I think I’ll go on a little bender, and make what probably will be the last day a plumb good one.
at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 368: Wouldn’t that best you?
at best, v.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 8: You blame degenerate pup, you!
at blame, adj.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester (2015) 405: He just sweat blood to pacify her, but he couldn’t make it .
at sweat blood (v.) under blood, n.1
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 518: ‘You puddin’ head! You blunderbuss!’ cried Granny.
at blunderbuss, n.1
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 552: I just stood in the carriage and screamed, ‘Boy! Boy!’.
at boy!, excl.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 338: Won’t her eyes bung out when I tell her about this? [DARE].
at bung out (v.) under bung, v.1
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 123: Take that cussed money and put it where I’ll never see or hear of it.
at cussed, adj.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 365: I heard he was just tearing up Jack over here, and I could get the sound of hammering.
at cut up jack, v.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 538: Chilly! Demnition cold is what they are!
at demnition, adj.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 13: Drat that dog!
at drat, v.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 113: Well, forever more! And don’t call that fiddlin’ business for a big, healthy, young man.
at fiddling, n.2
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 60: You are working fit to kill, the neighbours say.
at fit to kill under fit to..., phr.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 515: ‘Grandmother your foot!’ cried the old woman.
at my foot!, excl.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 332: I think perhaps that’s a little Frenchy.
at Frenchie, adj.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 12: If I could marry a girl like mother – great Caesar!
at great Caesar! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 518: ‘You puddin’ head! You blunderbuss!’ cried Granny.
at pudding-head, n.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 559: ‘What an old sap-head I am!’ she commented.
at sap-head, n.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 374: I don’t make no bones of the fact that he’s a heap more of a man.
at heap, n.1
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 512: What the Sam Hill is the idiot writin’ his woman like that for?
at what the Sam Hill! (excl.) under Sam Hill, n.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 330: ‘The full set, by hokey!’ marvelled the Harvester.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 196: She’s got to stick it out until her aunt grows better.
at stick it out (v.) under stick it, v.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 81: Just at the wrong instant a box fell and knocked down a child and I got in a jam.
at jam, n.1
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 394: ‘Jerusalem!’ said Doctor Carey rising stiffly.
at Jerusalem!, excl.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 530: Lawk-a-mercy on us, can this really be?
at lawks-a-mussy! (excl.) under lawks!, excl.
[UK] G. Stratton-Porter Harvester 149: Put in your best licks, my boy; perk right up and court her like a house afire.
at lick, n.2
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