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Fools of Fortune choose

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[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 166: Would you credit that? Well, that beats Banagher!
at beat Bannagher (v.) under Bannagher, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 22: I don’t think we should call him beery [...] A red complexion doesn’t always mean a person drinks too much.
at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 119: Cripes, I don’t know where you scraped that from [...] A right doxy you picked up there.
at doxy, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 118: They don’t wash the empties. The empties come back and they fill them up again.
at empty, n.1
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 76: If you ever get a feel of her, Quinton, will you tell me what it was like?
at feel, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 89: ‘Eerah, get on with you,’ said the girl.
at go on!, excl.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 117: ‘The hard man,’ Ring greeted My Byrne [...] Mr Byrne, a dour man, once a champion wrestler, did not reply.
at hard man, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 203: I’d say the old Jerries have given him the works by now.
at Jerry, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 211: Jays, will you look at the cut of Quinton?
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 90: You’d do better than that skivvy in the first kip-shop you’d come to.
at kip shop (n.) under kip, n.1
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 120: Did you have a fancy for the mott yourself?
at mot, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 124: Another Paddy bottle stood uncorked on her bedside table [...] the smell of whiskey was pungent in the room.
at Paddy, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 145: ‘Foul old pussy,’ Cynthia said.
at pussy, n.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 218: ‘Silly-billy Quinton,’ Teresa Shea used to say.
at silly billy (n.) under silly, adj.
[UK] W. Trevor Fools of Fortune 89: Would you wet your whistle with us in the Lamb’s?
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
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