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[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 109: A wireless bra [...] giving bugger-all support.
at bugger all, n.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 123: ‘You’re fucking fired [...]’ ‘Bollocks she is,’ Ger interjected.
at ballocks!, excl.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 114: It [i.e. a joke] was a sheer belter because it illustrated that [...] Rory could also be a blundering numpty.
at belter (n.) under belt, v.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 238: Dinner, a few bevs and a hard day’s yomping.
at bev, n.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 225: Her biz partner and principal ally.
at biz, n.1
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 98: How’s it going, bro?
at bro, n.1
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 193: Your thighs are aching like buggery.
at like buggery (adv.) under buggery, n.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 98: That nasty cokehead brother of his.
at cokehead (n.) under coke, n.1
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 122: Cool the jets, man [...] If there’s a problem, talk tae me.
at cool one’s jets (v.) under cool, v.2
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 99: The former Scotland Tonight frontwoman was not exactly a knock-’em-dead beauty.
at knock-’em-dead, adj.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 127: I’m not sure what the fuck I do either, but I’m pulling down six figures, so it must be pretty important.
at pull down, v.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 166: The purpose of the construction was not to get the squaddies over the drink.
at drink, n.1
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 122: You’re either gonna be eating pussy or out of a job.
at eat pussy (v.) under eat, v.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 225: By the time it [i.e. a meal] was finally sitting in front of him he’d have eaten a farmer’s arse through a hedge.
at could eat a farmer’s arse (through a hedge) under eat, v.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 144: Jeez, you only had to get an eyeful of Theresa Graham of a Monday morning to nail that one.
at get an eyeful (v.) under eyeful, n.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 98: It was hard to imagine him even fronting up at the off-license.
at front, v.1
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 98: How’s it going, bro?
at how’s it going?, phr.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 127: [It] might be an embarrassing admission, but would at least have made him sound less of a ham shank.
at ham shank, n.2
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 164: It was always freezing and he was an unrepentant Big Jessie.
at jessie, n.1
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 166: Energetically lamping Rory with a ‘Shut Up You Smug Tory Twat’ baseball bat.
at lamp, v.1
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 326: How evil and threatening those lefties he spied upon were.
at lefty, n.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 122: You know she’s a lezza [...] a muff-muncher.
at lezzer, n.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 249: That’s the most mingin’ thing I’ve ever seen.
at minging, adj.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 122: You know she’s a lezza [...] a muff-muncher.
at muff muncher (n.) under muff, n.1
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 144: Jeez, you only had to get an eyeful of Theresa Graham of a Monday morning to nail that one [i.e. a mistaken theory].
at nail, v.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 98: Unlike that nasty cokehead brother of his, natch.
at natch, adv.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 99: ‘More than a nip-slip [...] it’s a lot more than your usual blurry down-blouse.’ ‘Confirmed visible nipple?’ ‘In colour.’.
at nip-slip (n.) under nip, n.4
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 114: It [i.e. a joke] was a sheer belter because it illustrated that [...] Rory could also be a blundering numpty.
at numpty, n.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 144: The flowchart on some right-on feminazi pamphlet.
at right on, adj.
[Scot] C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 238: I’m sorry to be a party-pooper, but I think we might have a wee problem.
at party pooper (n.) under party, n.2
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