Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Americans Abroad choose

Quotation Text

[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: An awful desperate, gawky kind of fellow.
at awful, adv.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I ii: Ostler, post-boy, boots, under-waiter.
at boots, n.2
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II iii: I can’t say I like your catlap as we call it in our parts.
at cat-lap (n.) under cat, n.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II iii: I’ll make it as clear as mud to you.
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II iv: My madeira! – ha! ha! cool!
at cool, adv.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II ii: Well, this is a cool, insolent solicitor.
at cool, adj.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: A pretty considerable darned out of the way beginning I’ve made in this country.
at darned, adv.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II iii: Oh! the dickens – I’m stunded!
at dickens, the, phr.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II ii: Gad! he had not any occasion to say it twice.
at gad!, excl.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I ii: There goes Jemmy in a galloping consumption.
at galloping, adj.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I ii: It is always locked up, by that she griffin with a bunch of keys.
at griffin, n.2
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: Come, none of your gum.
at gum, n.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I iii: I don’t half like these people.
at not half, phr.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I iii: The English folks are a parcel of highty-tighty, mighty, flighty fellows!
at highty-tighty, adj.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I ii: Hoity toity, now – here are you two fellows idling when there are chickens to pick – peas to shell.
at hoity-toity!, excl.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: None of your flouting, by jumping jigs, I won’t stand it.
at jumping, adj.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I ii: Let us kick for more wages.
at kick, v.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II iv: Lauks! how civil to a poor body.
at lawks!, excl.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I iii: I saw a nation nice place below for the black gentleman to sleep in – the water trough.
at nation, adv.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: Yes massa – piccaninny boys top to look at turtle.
at piccaninny, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: ‘No tobacco allowed in England.’ There – (shuts book.) put that in your pipe and smoke it. There’s another slap at ’em!
at put that in your pipe (and smoke it)! (excl.) under pipe, n.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I ii: A po-chay driver don’t mind old age.
at po’chaise, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: Don’t you stick your bristles up high to make me sing small.
at sing small (v.) under sing, v.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II ii: I’ve sparked pretty often at hum with the Deacon’s darter.
at spark, v.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad II ii: The young man, Nathaniel Larkspur, who brings this letter, I can recommend as a super-excellent postillion.
at super, adv.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: Unless the Liverpool people tell taradiddles, the Londoners weigh one hundred thousand pounds each.
at taradiddle, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: Tarnation! that Uncle Ben, he always doos.
at tarnation!, excl.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: I’m pretty plaguily tired trampoosing the Atlantic.
at trampooze, v.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I ii: I’ll go and tell your master, and he shall come and trim your jackets right well.
at trim someone’s jacket (v.) under trim, v.
[UK] R.B. Peake Americans Abroad I i: You are but an underlin’, tho’ you are so uppish and twistical.
at twistical, adj.
load more results