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[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Sure what’s Churchill anyway, bad scran to him, only a yahoo, with a cigar stuck in his fat gob.
at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: You’re right son, a bollix, that’s what he is.
at ballocks, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Informing me that bejasus the weather would hold up if it didn’t rain.
at bejazus!, excl.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: I got billy-ho for going with you to that fillum.
at billy-o, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: Bolicky Biddy had only one diddy / To feed the baby on.
at bollacking, adj.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: I was dining out in London: black dickie-bow.
at dickey bow, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Don’t ever again let me hear you saying the like of that. That’s a corner-boy expression.
at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: You ignorant, wet, forelock-tugging old crawler.
at crawler, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: Bolicky Biddy had only one diddy / To feed the baby on.
at diddies, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Dry up, will you.
at dry up, v.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: da (the standanrd answer): We won’t do a shaggin’ hand’s turn. charlie (awe and delight): Gawny!
at Gawney Mac!, excl.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: There’s an old gobshite at the tradesmen’s entrance with thirty pairs of spectacle-frames.
at gobshite, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: They said I’d rue the day, and the gawm I was, I didn’t believe them.
at gom, n.2
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Your old fellow is great gas.
at great gas (n.) under great, adj.3
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: You what? Like hell you will.
at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Sure you couldn’t let him mix with high-up people and the arse out of his trousers.
at high-up, adj.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: I think I’ll hump off.
at hump, v.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: We used to yell Ikey Meh at him when the tram went past.
at ikey-mo, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Oh, Jancy, I think I’ll go mad.
at janey mack!, excl.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: You? You’re jizzless.
at jism, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: I won’t leave a stick or stone standing in the kip.
at kip, n.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: But no, you couldn’t wait to get maggoty drunk.
at maggoty, adj.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Messer!
at messer, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: We’ll be on the pig’s back then, Da, won’t we? When we’re rich.
at on the pig’s back under pig, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: You pup, will you come down before that shaggin’ aeroplane is off up into the air and you’re left standin’!
at pup, n.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Well, when you do get married, to whatever rip will have you.
at rip, n.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Sappy days, eh?
at sappy, adj.
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: Hoosh. Scat. Out.
at scat, v.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act II: I only grow the shaggers.
at shagger, n.1
[Ire] H. Leonard Da (1981) Act I: He knows too shaggin’ much.
at shagging, adj.
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