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[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 145: He’s as silly as a wet hen.
at ...a (wet) hen under silly as…, adj.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 145: It’s about time you got off on your own bat.
at on one’s own bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 146: I’d rather go up to Auckland. The Big Smoke.
at Big Smoke, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 164: ‘How about coming to the pictures with me tonight.’ [...] ‘All right if I see you outside the bughouse at a quarter to eight?’.
at bughouse, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 124: Gil went really butcher’s at her to me for a minute.
at go/be butcher’s (hook) (v.) under butcher’s (hook), adj.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 135: ‘Ah,’ she said, and continued to grin warmly at me [...] ‘You’ve got a hot cod.’.
at cod, n.3
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 120: My worn, oily bike attracted her. ‘Bloody old coffee-pot needs its guts reamed out,’ I said.
at coffee-grinder (n.) under coffee, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 176: One of his eyes was knocked out in a shunting accident. [...] Then he bought this place with the compo money.
at compo, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 124: You coot. I heard you fooling around.
at coot, n.1
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 125: ‘She’s a fair-dinkum man-eater. She minces up blokes like you for breakfast.’ ‘Crap off,’ I said.
at crap off (v.) under crap, v.2
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 19: How could I justify my existence, in this boring, crapped-out society, where gold was king and Moloch was god?
at crapped out, adj.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 120: Like my old man [...] He’s cuckoo beyond recall.
at cuckoo, adj.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 107: Gil knew he didn’t have a dog’s show.
at dog’s show (n.) under dog, n.2
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 124: Do you want to get her up the flaming duff?
at up the duff (adj.) under duff, n.3
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 165: ‘I’m staying at the Star,’ I said. [...] ‘You mean that flea palace?’ she asked with a laugh.
at fleapit, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 124: Don’t be a flaming galah, Ken.
at galah, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 123: Why do you get all gooey about a joker like Koko?
at gooey, adj.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 110: ‘Here’s some hoot.’ Don handed him a couple of fives.
at hoot, n.1
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 107: She’s going to marry me. Everything’s jacked up.
at jacked up, adj.4
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 511: Well, I’ll be — jiggered. So you married Don.
at I’ll be jiggered! (excl.) under jigger, v.3
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 123: Why do you get all gooey about a joker like Koko?
at joker, n.1
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 139: This is the one afternoon when I’ve been able to arrange to take time off, and you try to put the kybosh on me.
at put the kibosh on (v.) under kibosh, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 106: Well, so Otago won [...] A victory for the good old Mainland.
at mainland, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 181: Don’t go and get the pricker with me over it.
at get the pricker (v.) under pricker, n.1
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 160: I don’t want a thing now. Only a spot of snooze.
at snooze, n.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 123: She’s soppy on you all right.
at soppy on (adj.) under soppy, adj.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 187: Thanks a million, Fred.
at thanks a million under thanks..., phr.
[NZ] P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 139: ‘I won’t be dictated to,’ Lorna said. ‘Bloody twit.’.
at twit, n.
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