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[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 182: Gets paid to bore the arse off folks about politics.
at — the arse/ass off under arse, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 239: I see the raggedy-arsed look is in this year.
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 371: I’ve had enough of the millenarian keech from that balloon Foy.
at balloon, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 369: Those bams were lucky not to be taken for the IRA.
at bam, n.4
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 96: Bedding the girlies too wet behind the ears to tell Stork from butter.
at bed, v.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 322: That wiry adolescent’s body trapped by the pure beef of his opponent.
at beef, n.1
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 342: Last time I saw Cal he was knocking eight bells out of him. And getting as good as he gave.
at knock seven bells out of (v.) under bell, n.1
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 190: Five minutes chat about Celtic’s chances [...] another five bellyaching about those clowns on the executive.
at bellyache, v.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 51: And yer lemon. As long as she brings some bevvy.
at bevvy, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 62: When I flitted to Mount Florida the landlord must have binned them.
at bin, v.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 54: Getting blootered in the back room of pubs.
at blootered, adj.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 53: ‘How was the pizza?’ He screws up his face. ‘Boggin’.’.
at bogging, adj.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 166: I can see he’s an ugly bug and I’m his mother.
at bug, n.1
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 36: Hard hat and brickie’s bum?
at builder’s bum, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 126: My thieving Dago chef did a runner ten minutes ago along with his bum-boys.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 288: He’d bummed lunch off a different bird every day since he arrived.
at bum, v.3
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 55: He was head bummer at the Welfare Rights but they gave him the welly.
at bummer, n.3
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 342: Do you think he might try bumping you out of the way too?
at bump, v.1
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 307: The broo doesn’t give them enough to feed the kids.
at buroo, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 237: The gallons of Heavy and the whisky chasers.
at chaser, n.1
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 186: Don’t kid on you can tell a butterknife from a chib.
at chiv, n.1
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 186: Christ on a bike, I forgot about the battered sisters.
at Christ on a bike! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 189: Flushing your facepowder down the cludgie every time the polis turn up at the door.
at cludgie, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 282: HIV positive from an unlucky brush with the cottage industry.
at cottage, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 54: Unless he stopped off somewhere for a couple of shots of Dutch Courage.
at Dutch courage, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 308: It was pitiful to see her creaming herself over him.
at cream, v.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 87: He’s dressed in a faded and rumpled denim shirt and a darker shade of jeans. Poly lecturer cred.
at cred, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 275: The deadpan insults rained on complete strangers were a joke.
at deadpan, adj.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 347: I’ve known women who managed it with a diesel-dyke haircut and a pair of dungarees.
at diesel-dyke, n.
[UK] A. Close Official and Doubtful 211: Juries are rum duckies. Have their own ideas about happy ever afters. They might not be sympathetic.
at ducky, n.
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