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That Eye, The Sky choose

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[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 22: You never cared a black damn for her.
at not give a damn, v.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 117: Mum came in and went crook something awful.
at awful, adv.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 88: ‘Oh, bollocks.’ ‘Tegwyn, another word like that and you can go to your room.’.
at ballocks!, excl.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 72: Henry Warburton bangs around.
at bang around (v.) under bang, v.1
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 130: I get six of the best to show how much he doesn’t wanna see me. April Fool. Beaudy.
at beauty!, excl.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 34: A couple of yobbos come in. Black T-shirts, black beetle-crushers.
at beetle-crusher (n.) under beetle, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 104: Now you’re a born-again, bashing the Bible and Holy Jesus. I think you’re crap.
at bible-basher (n.) under bible, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 91: Mum’s bickies – the ones made of bran and oatmeal.
at bikkie, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 5: The only lights in sight are from Cherry’s roadhouse [...] You can see their bowsers glowing, and sometimes you think you can actually see the numbers rolling in them. [Ibid.] There’s two shops, a pub, a bowser.
at bowser, n.3
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 70: Why don’t you and me go over after brekky.
at brekkie, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 140: I was in the nick. Remember, buddy-boy?
at buddy boy (n.) under buddy, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 34: Piss off, bumface.
at bumface, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 76: Fanbelts. Carbies. Tools.
at carby, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 72: Dad’s Chev truck is out there.
at Chevvy, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 127: Don’t try your religious crap on me, boy. Don’t come the crapper with me.
at crapper, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 120: Four big kids yell: ‘Melon!’ and drag me in the dunnies [...] and shove my head in the crappiest bowl and flush.
at crappy, adj.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 69: He [...] came back riding an old yellow bike, a crappy old crate with a girl’s carry basket on the front.
at crate, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 117: Mum came in and went crook something awful.
at go crook (on) (v.) under crook, adj.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 35: The two yobbos just stand there and look like dags.
at dag, n.2
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 117: They look just as daggy as us.
at daggy, adj.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 52: Ort doesn’t have to ’cause he’s a boy, ’cause he’s got a dangler and I haven’t.
at dangler, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 140: Henry Warburton’s such a dickhead.
at dickhead, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 120: It’s normal for you to go to the dyke fifty times a night.
at dike, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 112: Get up, Morton Flack, you dill. Get out of the water or you’ll die!
at dill, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 103: The empty bit of dunny roll.
at dunny, n.2
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 102: Taking the Michael out of his girlfriend for being ugly and dropping her falsies in the washing.
at extract the Michael, v.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 102: Taking the Michael out of his girlfriend for being ugly and dropping her falsies in the washing.
at falsies, n.
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 118: Morton-flamin’-Flack, what the hell do you think you’re doing?
at flaming, adj.2
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 70: I think he’s hit the grog a bit.
at hit the grog (v.) under grog, n.1
[Aus] T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 971: She’s got a bloody hide sending you over here. She’s got hide, full-stop.
at hide, n.
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