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[US] J. Hogg Tales (1866) 372: When the bishop flung the water on your boy’s face, how the little chub looked at him.
at chub, n.1
[US] A. Baraka in Tales (1969) 89: OK, be intellectual, go write some more of them jivey books.
at jivey (adj.) under jive, adj.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 14: Who told you to try to steal it, jive ass.
at jive-ass, n.1
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 14: Get away from my grease. Hungry ass spooks.
at -ass, sfx
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 79: The late show at the National was turning out, and all the big hats there jumped right in our line.
at big hat (n.) under big, adj.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 80: Then the knives came out, the razors, all the Biggers who would not be bent, counterattacked.
at bigger thomas, n.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 77: He blasted all night, crawled and leaped.
at blast, v.1
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 14: Aww, man, blow, will you?
at blow!, excl.2
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 16: I know some of you who’d better be in your rooms [...] hitting those books.
at hit the books, v.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 10: Me and Chris had these D.C. babes at their cribs [...] Oooooo, that was some good box.
at box, n.1
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 42: J. [...] broke bad because Augie, Norman, and white Johnny were there.
at break bad (v.) under break, v.2
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 20: Yeh. They call this cat [i.e. a homosexual] Dick Brown. Hoooo!
at brown, adj.2
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 3: Bulldaggers hiding their pussies.
at bull-dagger (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 61: Before he even looked at the bag Bob said, ‘O.K., which one of you faggots burned me?’.
at burn, v.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 12: Phil’s cracking the books.
at crack the books (v.) under crack, v.2
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 14: Enty and Mazique are playing bridge with the farmers.
at farmer, n.2
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 24: I don’t have penny the first!
at first, the, n.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 19: You better quit inferring that shit about Ray. What you trying to say, ol’ pointy head is funny or something?
at funny, adj.3
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 76: Gator would strut up and down the stage [...] shaking his long gassed hair.
at gassed, adj.2
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 73: Some stuck-up boy with ‘good’ hair.
at good hair (n.) under good, adj.1
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 13: Will you listen to this little pointy head bastard calling me funny looking.
at pointy-head, adj.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 8: He’s in med school and married and lost to you, hombre.
at hombre, n.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 79: Five or six hundred hopped-up woogies tumbled out into Belmont Avenue.
at hopped (up), adj.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 104: Crackers. Hunkies. All the words.
at hunky, n.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 82: I was only maybe a year and a half in, with another year and a half to go.
at in, adv.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 21: Is it you saying that Hutchens and my man here are into some funny shit?
at into, prep.3
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 10: You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?
at jones, n.2
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 13: I told you not to take Organic . . . as light as you are.
at light, adj.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 13: You better start thinking about him [i.e. a professor] or you’ll punch right out. They don’t need lightweights down in the valley.
at lightweight, n.
[US] A. Baraka Tales (1969) 8: Jimmy Lassiter, first looie.
at looie, n.
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