Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Legal Atmospherics choose

Quotation Text

[SA] N. Devitt Legal Atmospherics 131: lawyer : Would you describe them as old crocks? witness: Do you mean the committee – or the horses?
at crock, n.2
[SA] N. Devitt Legal Atmospherics 81: The big white baases at the Cape say that you hottentots are such dreadful liars that they cannot believe a word you say.
at Hottentot, n.
[SA] N. Devitt Legal Atmospherics 167: Ya, ou bok [...] Yes, old goat.
at ou, adj.
[SA] N. Devitt Legal Atmospherics 142: ‘Die regter se jij is een vervloekste smeerlap!’ (The judge says you are a cussedly dirty person!).
at smeerlap, n.
[SA] N. Devitt Legal Atmospherics 173: The white-washed walls of the old ‘tronk,’ as the prison was called.
at tronk, n.
no more results