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[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I vii: The ol’ lumbago’s acting up again.
at act up, v.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I xv: We don’t want love, we want a fat slice o’ revenge. Kiss my arse!
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I vii: Rich nobs and privileged arse-holes can afford to be bonkers. Living in a dream world, aren’t they, sir?
at arsehole, n.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class II iii: You debagged the Chaplain and hit the local constable over the head with an ebony shelalee.
at de-bag, v.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I viii: I know J.C.’s as batty as a moorhen, sir, but this isn’t playing the game.
at batty, adj.1
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I xv: Filthy beast!
at beast, n.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I xvi: Can you beat it, J.C.’s got labour pains too.
at can you beat it? under beat, v.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I xvi: We’ll call the little beggar Bussay d’Ambois.
at beggar, n.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I iii: If my nephew’s bonkers, why the blazes did you let him out?
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I iv: Destroying property ... all men equal ... My God, Claire, he’s not only mad, he’s Bolshie.
at bolshie, adj.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class II ii: I know they’re waiting to give me the boot.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I v: I’m the real England, not beef-eating Johnny Bullshit.
at John Bull, n.1
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I xiii: There’s always some scruffy chappie on a street corner who wants to tell you all about his love life.
at chappie, n.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I vii: Most of us’d look pretty cracked if we went round doing just what we wanted to, eh, sir?
at cracked, adj.
[UK] Peter Barnes Ruling Class I vi: But dammit I am prospective Parliamentary candidate for the division.
at damn it!, excl.
[UK] P. Barnes The Ruling Class I xv: We Gurneys have always been damnably virile.
at damnably, adv.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class II i: We’ve been darned lucky up to now.
at darned, adv.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I x: I don’t know what the devil you’re on about.
at what the devil...?, phr.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class II vi: That’s right, ducks. ’Ow’s about it?
at ducks, n.1
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class Prologue: Miss Shelley seems well-endowed, sir.
at well-endowed, adj.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I vii: Yes, he’s a nut-case all right, but then so are most of these titled flea-bags.
at fleabag, n.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class Prologue: Beri-beri. Picked it up of some scruffy fuzzy-wuzzy in a dressing-gown, shouldn’t wonder.
at fuzzy-wuzzy, n.1
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class II vii: I was this randy old goat’s mistress!
at goat, n.1
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I iv: Great Scott, who’s the idiot responsible?
at great Scott! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I ix: Hang it all, whatever else you are, you’re still a Gurney.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I ii: Tucker seems het up.
at het up, adj.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I i: Nobody else gets much of a look-in.
at look-in, n.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class II ii: Jeez, I can’t make up my mind.
at jeez!, excl.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I xv: If you want to keep kibbitzing here, belt up on the snide remarks.
at kibitz, v.
[UK] P. Barnes Ruling Class I ii: I’m Gilbert the Filbert the Knut with a ‘K’.
at knut, n.
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