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[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 161: You’re like a bloody Mary Ann!
at mary ann, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 137: I’ve just had an almighty barney with Arthur about the song.
at barney, n.2
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 89: We’re pulling t’ bugger down.
at bugger, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 91: ‘By, that’s capped me theer, Councillor!’ ‘Aye, and tha’s capped me an all.’.
at cap, v.5
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 55: I had already cured her of calling me ‘pet lamb’ by going ‘Jesus H. Christ!’ explosively when she said it.
at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 137: Will you get your hands off my cowing, sodding, frigging sleeve!
at cowing, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 39: Take your frigging mucky hands off my pullover, stupid-looking crow!
at crow, n.2
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 39: He’s got a mucky book under his jersey! Coarrr! Dirty old man!
at dirty old man, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 30: Doss down at Rowton House.
at doss down (v.) under doss, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 144: ‘I’m pretending I’ve got flat feet,’ I said [...] ‘Fathead.’.
at fat-head, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 13: ’Ere, rear, rear, watch your bloody language! With you flaming this and flaming that!
at flaming, adj.2
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 48: This was the sequence and rhythm of daylight love-play as she knew it, a kind of oral footy-footy that was the nearest she could get to intimate conversation.
at footsie-footsie, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 161: Don’t bloody shout at me, you gormless young get!
at get, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 14: You just eat your breakfast, and don’t have so much off.
at have off (v.) under have, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 79: He wants to give him a good hiding.
at hiding, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 77: For God’s sake, Billy, why don’t you tell the boring little man to stick the job up his jacksy?
at stick it up your jacksie! (excl.) under jacksie, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 51: Jammy bugger!
at jammy, adj.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 48: Oo, hark at Lord Muck.
at Lord Muck (n.) under muck, n.1
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 36: Naff off, Stamp, for Christ sake!
at naff off! (excl.) under naff, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 46: Well which one of them’s got the naffing engagement ring?
at naffing, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 52: ‘Piss off,’ I said.
at piss off!, excl.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 179: Be funny if one of ’em pegged out on the job.
at peg out, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 108: She was talking to him in her comfortable plummy voice.
at plummy, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 181: You rotten get! You rotten, lying get!
at rotten, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 181: You think you’re it but you’re shit!
at shit, adj.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 34: ‘Off for a slash,’ I muttered.
at slash, n.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 55: A dirty, crumpled bag of chocolates [...] I had bought them when Stamp handed over his white box of passion pills. ‘You’ll need snogging fodder to go with them,’ he explained.
at snog, v.
[UK] K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 181: You miserable, lying, rotten, stinking get!
at stinking, adj.1
[UK] R. Grayson Liar 105: Why don’t they just go ahead and send him down to Huntsville to get the hot seat?
at hot seat, n.
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