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[UK] J.W. Horsley in Echo 25 Jan. 2/4: The treadmill again, is more politely called the everlasting staircase, or the wheel of life, or the vertical care-grinder.
at wheel of life (n.) under wheel, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 25: For Christ’s sake smarten yourself up, or you’ll give the poor woman the screaming habdabs.
at screaming abdabs (n.) under abdabs, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 199: He started yelling that I was a rent-boy and that anyone who wanted a bit of my arse should just come in the tent and take it.
at arse, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 359: Okay, he were a pain in the butt most of the time, but I’d kind of got used to him.
at pain in the arse, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 262: ’Course we didn’t share a sodding bed. I’m no pillow biter, and he’s no sausage jockey.
at pillow-biter, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 188: Bog off, Terry. Billy can go hang for all I care.
at bog off, v.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 163: They warned me off you and Lawrence because they reckoned you were a couple of chutney ferrets after my arse.
at chutney ferret (n.) under chutney, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 199: So I jumped the silly bugger and tied him up in my doss before one of the psychos could kill him.
at doss, n.1
[UK] M. Walters Echo 163: Oh great! So our reputations go down the pan while you come out smelling of roses.
at down the pan under down, prep.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 43: I could no more pose weepy-eyed over where Billy died than I could wear your fuck-me clothes or your fuck-me make-up.
at fuck-me, adj.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 71: Listen, mate, the poor bastard had galloping schizophrenia, just like Walt here.
at galloping, adj.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 161: Jesus wept. ‘Why not? What was so bad about it?’.
at Jesus wept!, excl.
[UK] M. Walters The Echo 354: You look like you’re sucking lemons every time the subject comes up.
at suck lemons (v.) under lemon, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 236: None of us’d seen him for about three, four weeks before he pegged it.
at peg out, v.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 210: He realised that Lawrence’s advice about keeping one step ahead was about as useful as pissing in the wind.
at piss in(to) the wind (v.) under piss, v.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 312: Means she’s scored, doesn’t it? Means she ain’t no pushover.
at pushover, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 262: ’Course we didn’t share a sodding bed. I’m no pillow biter, and he’s no sausage jockey.
at sausage jockey (n.) under sausage, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 312: Means she’s scored, doesn’t it? Means she ain’t no pushover.
at score, v.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 312: What happens to the average wife whose husband dumps her in the shit and vanishes with all the loot?
at land someone in the shit under shit, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 163: Oh great! So our reputations go down the pan while you come out smelling of roses.
at come up smelling of/like violets (v.) under smell, v.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 273: It breaks my heart to watch her struggling to be civil to me in case I up my stumps and leave.
at stumps, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 299: Tight as a tick, he had waved them off in a taxi.
at tight as a tick (adj.) under tight, adj.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 95: People started getting twitched about whether he constituted a danger to society.
at twitched, adj.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 164: Terry threw an anguished glance over his shoulder at Deacon which clearly said, This old guy’s got his hand in mine, and I think he’s a fucking woofter.
at woofter, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 287: Plus, she don’t half talk a lot. Yabber, yabber, yabber.
at yabber, v.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 140: You like sucky-sucky? Sounds good, eh, sweeties?
at sucky-sucky, n.
[UK] M. Walters Echo 262: He glared from Deacon to the two policemen. ‘Course we didn't share a sodding bed. I'm no pillow biter, and he's no sausage jockey. Got it?’.
at sausage jockey (n.) under sausage, n.
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