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[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles 85: He went through at Alice but the Provosts picked him up.
at Alice, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles II iii: Why don’t you get off our back for once and pull your big woolly head in.
at get off someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I i: Sydney, eh? How is the Big Smoke?
at Big Smoke, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles II v: The boongs reckons that’s the sound of the gods getting wild.
at boong, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles II iv: andy: You big galah. [...] keghead: In your great dinger, you rotten crawling chocko.
at choco, n.1
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I i: He’d better not come the raw prawn on us.
at come the raw prawn (v.) under come the..., v.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles (1980) 75: Andy; Never mind — she got her divorce. Keghead: I wonder if Mack cracked her.
at crack, v.2
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I ii: keghead: Born crawler. gig: Cripes, this place is bad enough without a crawler.
at crawler, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I i: The Blue Orchids are curl the Mo.
at curl-the-mo, adj.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles II iii: ot.: Cripes. Poor old Dean Maitland. gig.: Is he nuts? [...] vic.: There must have been a lot on his mind. I never saw him speak the whole time he was here.
at dean maitland, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I iii: They send you South if you get dermo more than three times.
at dermo, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I i: By the shade of the old apple tree there’s a tear in her dress I can see. I can see da da da and a lot of whacko diddle de . . ..
at whacko the diddle-oh!, excl.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles II iv: andy: You big galah. [...] keghead: In your great dinger, you rotten crawling chocko.
at dinger, n.1
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I i: You wasn’t here when the dunny blew up.
at dunny, n.2
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I iv: If I was married to Mac I’d have frigged off long ago.
at frig off (v.) under frig, v.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I vi: After they frigged me around for so long I got home the day after the funeral.
at frig about (v.) under frig, v.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles II ii: By gee, they’ll have a ruddy jack-up.
at gee!, excl.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I iii: You stupid gig ape . . . what did you do that for?
at gig, n.2
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles 85: He went through at Alice but the Provosts picked him up.
at go through, v.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles (1980) 86: keghead: I’ll go through when I get to Melbourne, you see. They’ll never find me — .
at go through, v.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I i: Got any good guts on replacements?
at good guts (n.) under good, adj.1
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I i: I’ll spin ’em for a quid . . . Get set in the guts . . . Come on now . . . Another two bob for the guts . . . Who’ll be in the guts?
at gut, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles II ii: Bloomin’ optimist, aren’t you? Why don’t you pull your head in?
at pull your head in! (excl.) under head, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles II ii: By gee, they’ll have a ruddy jack-up here in the Transport Section if they don’t.
at jack-up, n.1
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles 62: ‘By Jeez, they’ll have a ruddy jack-up here [...] if they don’t’.
at jack-up, n.2
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles 62: ‘By Jeez, they’ll have a ruddy jack-up here [...] if they don’t’.
at jeez!, excl.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I iii: I got to wash three pairs of shorts and all me sox, me two long-uns and a half dozen shirts.
at long johns, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I i: Give us some lolly water.
at lollywater, n.
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles 25: You’re a mug lair.
at mug lair (n.) under mug, n.1
[Aus] S.L. Elliott Rusty Bugles I iii: You’re a mug liar.
at mug, adj.
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