Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

The Orange Girl choose

Quotation Text

[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 199: Your Cousin Mathew is as mad as an Abram-man.
at abram-man, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 225: The Thieves’ Kitchen: the Black Jack: the favourite House of Call for the gallows-bird.
at gallows-bird, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 160: Mr. Will, a body may ask how much is wanted to get you out.
at body, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 92: At forty-five his circumference is great: his neck is swollen; his cheek is red: perhaps his nose has become what is called a Bottle.
at bottle-nose, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 273: Behind every villain stands a greater villain. Behind the humble footpad stands the Captain.
at captain, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 249: You are a little disguised in liquor.
at disguised, adj.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 56: It is a place for sailors and their Dolls.
at doll, n.1
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 228: If [...] I choose to bring my fancy man here, am I to ask the Bishop’s leave?
at fancy man, n.1
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl II 12: They all crowded round, crying ‘Garnish! garnish!’ I held up my hands: I assured them that I was penniless.
at garnish, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl II 104: Is it one of the St. Giles’s company?
at St Giles’s breed (n.) under St Giles, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 237: Well, sir, you see us here, as we are, as orderly and peaceful a house as your Worship would desire.
at house, n.1
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 77: She liked them ‘hugeously’.
at huge, adj.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl II 137: His cringing salute was almost as nauseous as the impudent brutality which he had shown in the Thieves’ Kitchen.
at thieves’ kitchen, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl II 98: The soldiers drew up before the door: the mob began throwing stones.
at mob, n.2
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 48: What? You have deserted the money-bags?
at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 236: Your place stinks, mother [...] and it’s so thick with tobacco and the steam of the punch that a body can’t see across.
at mother, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl II 125: ‘Gaol-bird!’ he cried, banging his fist on the table and talking thickly. ‘Newgate-bird—what do you want? Money?’.
at Newgate bird (n.) under Newgate, n.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 269: How is the man to be put out of the way?
at put out, v.
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 79: ‘What?’ he cried. ‘You the only son of Sir Peter Halliday [...] the greatest merchant in the City: the heir to a plum—what do I say? Three or four plums at least.’.
at plum, n.2
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl I 227: After a mug of purl.
at purl, n.1
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl II 214: I think I have done pretty well for my mother and for Doll. Their slate is clean again. They can begin fair.
at clean (off) the slate (v.) under slate, n.1
[UK] W. Besant Orange Girl II 14: I never did like to think that I should be the widow of a Tyburn bird.
at Tyburn bird (n.) under Tyburn, n.
no more results