Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Jeronimo and the Warres of Portugall choose

Quotation Text

[UK] Jeronimo (1605) Fii: reueng: No, youle blab secrets then and: By Charons boat. I will not.
at blab, v.
[UK] Jeronimo in Dodsley IV (1874) 366: I will buzz Andrea’s landing / Which, once crept into the vulgar mouths, / Is hurried here and there, and sworn for troth.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] Jeronimo (1605) Bii: Oh Duckets, dainty ducks forgive me, Duckets, ile fetch you duck inough or gold, And chink ma[k]es, the punck wanton and the Bawd to winke.
at chink, n.1
[UK] Jeronimo (1605) Ciii: Hast though written leaue bending in the Hams: enough like a Gentleman.
at ham, n.1
[UK] Jeronimo (1605) D: Peace no words Ile get thy pardon. Why, mum, then.
at mum, n.1
[UK] Jeronimo (1605) Ciiii: When I pause, the mellody may moue, And hem perswasion tweene her snowy paps that her hart hearing may relent and yeeld.
at paps, n.1
[UK] Jeronimo (1605) Diii: Nay Lord Lorenzo, whers the pardon? Sfoot Ile peach else.
at peach, v.
[UK] Jeronimo (1605) Aiiii: I haue a lad in pikell of this stamp, A melancholy discontented courtier Whose famisht iawes look like the chap of death.
at in pickle (adj.) under pickle, n.
[UK] Jeronimo in Dodsley IV (1874) 358: Chink / Makes the punk wanton and the bawd to wink.
at punk, n.1
[UK] Jeronimo (1605) Aiii: spai: How stand ye Lords to this election. omnes: Right pleasing our dread Soueraigne.
at right, adv.
[UK] Jeronimo (1605) D: Sfoot twas your fault my lord, you brought no word.
at ’sfoot!, excl.
no more results