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The Poor Gentleman choose

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[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman I i: Why, you booby, who ha’ made thee such a baboon?
at baboon, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman IV i: Mark! ’tis an old bird – The Honourable Miss Mac Tab, in a jog trot.
at old bird, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman IV ii: Impudent old scoundrel! [...] calls my family a wretched rabble. (Aside.) – Humphrey, did you ever see such brass?
at brass, n.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman II i: It doesn’t signify a brass farthing what they are called.
at brass farthing (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: A speculation with her fur, flax [...] linen and leather. And what’s the consequence? thirteen months ago, he broke.
at break, v.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman V ii: Is your ladyship’s honour bundling off, then?
at bundle off (v.) under bundle, n.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman IV ii: worth.: I might have known, that one of your cast is deaf to the petition of distress. sir rob.: The devil I am!
at devil, the, phr.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman I i: What a dickens! be that son Stephen keeping such a clatter?
at what the dickens!, excl.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: A jackanapes! [...] I’ll disinherit the dog for his assurance.
at dog, n.2
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: Egad so you did!
at egad!, excl.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: You had better be influenced by a rich old uncle; unless you think the sun likely to leave you a fat legacy.
at fat, adj.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman IV i: luc.: Bless me! I can never get over that stile! olla.: A little gummy in the leg, I suppose.
at gummy, adj.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman I i: I don’t think so, fegs! – Stay!
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: What’s the name of the black pad I purchased [...] at Tunbridge?
at pad, n.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: Give me a man who is always plumping dissent to my doctrines smack in my teeth.
at plump, v.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: You! you forward puppy!
at puppy, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman IV ii: The neighbours tell every body what a rum jockey you are.
at rum, adj.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman I i: No! You don’t say so?
at you don’t say under say, v.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman I ii: ’Sdeath! do you think me mad?
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman IV ii: I always told you, except myself, you kept a queer set.
at set, n.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman IV i: There are four spanking greys [...] that shall whisk us to town in a minute.
at spanking, adj.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: Damn it! this is spunk, and plain speaking!
at spunk, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman II ii: How these tabbies love to be toaded!
at tabby, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: If you have a tumble-down tit, send him to the vicar, to give him a chance of breaking his neck.
at tit, n.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III i: You have been my clumsy, two-fisted valet de chambre, these thirty years.
at two-fisted (adj.) under two, adj.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman I i: Wauns! let me come at him.
at wounds!, excl.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Poor Gentleman III iii: Zounds! I am quite out of breath.
at zounds!, excl.
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