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[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 12: In the far corner was another animal in knee panties.
at animal, n.1
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 55: ’Bout to-morrer evening we’ll be eating hog-bosom on Uncle Sam.
at sow-belly, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 42: A thousand-dollar bender.
at bender, n.2
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 118: We found him a big-mouthed, shifty, kind of man [...] full of wind as a toad fish.
at big-mouthed, adj.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 91: ‘Blaze away,’ says she.
at blaze away (v.) under blaze, v.2
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 122: I guess I’ve got the bulge on you this time.
at have the bulge on (v.) under bulge, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 12: ‘Oh, very well,’ says the checkaco, talking like a little girl.
at cheechako, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 57: I’d sure copper this move and play her to lose.
at copper, v.1
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 62: Before you could say ‘Craps! you lose,’ them shave-tails was given the grandest exhibition of animal idiocy.
at crap!, excl.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 13: Of all the cordial, why-how-do-you-do mule kicks handed down [...] that wallop was the adopted daddy.
at daddy, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 130: The noose sailed up and settled over him fine and daisy.
at daisy, adv.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 13: Of all the cordial, why-how-do-you-do mule kicks handed down [...] that wallop was the adopted daddy.
at how-do-you-do, n.1
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 63: ‘Here! you infernal half-spiled, dog-robbing walloper,’ I says; ‘you don’t know enough to drive puddle ducks to a pond.’.
at dog-robber, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 51: ‘Laugh, you old dong-beater,’ I yells [...] ‘or I’ll bust your cupola like a blue-rock.’.
at dong, n.1
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 41: Hold up! Your dope sheet is way to the bad [...] Who told you all that?
at dope sheet (n.) under dope, n.3
[UK] R. Beach Pardners v (1912) 120: He saw I was drunk, and fanned out, me shootin’ at him with every jump [DA].
at fan, v.2
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 167: By Gar! she’s gone.
at gar, n.1
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 29: It gripes me to hear a man cry.
at gripe, v.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 59: I was dragged to the ‘skookum house,’ where I spent the night.
at skookum house, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 88: I [...] had my arm dressed and a big jolt of whisky.
at jolt, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 77: Boys, as fur as the coin goes, we’re out an’ injured; we jest made a ‘Mexican stand-off’ — lost our money, but saved our lives.
at Mexican standoff (n.) under Mexican, adj.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 66: You’re a pretty good mule-puncher, eh?
at mule whacker (n.) under mule, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 27: I heard voices in the cabin. ‘Some musher out from town,’ thinks I.
at musher, n.1
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 21: I don’t mean to say that he was grouchy at any time. No, sir! He was the nickel-plated sunbeam of the whole creek.
at nickel-plated (adj.) under nickel, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 49: Hosstyle and ornery to the whole world.
at ornery, adv.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 36: They smoked ready-made cigarettes.
at ready-made (n.) under ready, adj.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 142: What are ye laughin’ at, ye shavetail?
at shavetail, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 10: I reckon all our booze combined would have made a fair sluice-head.
at sluice-head (n.) under sluice, n.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 64: Without being swelled on myself, I’ll say, too, that I once had more’n a local reputation in that line.
at swelled, adj.
[UK] R. Beach Pardners (1912) 107: I cast the bad eye on the boys to wise ’em up.
at wise up, v.
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