1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 165: Maybe I could have been a big fella with cars and maids but I don’t give two tuppeny turds.at not give a tuppenny damn, v.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 68: O I tell you, its coming along a jolly treat.at treat, a, adv.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 13: My cousin, who looked like a cow’s arse, wouldn’t even come across.at come across, v.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 44: There I was, on hard cold stone mumbling hail marys and thinking of ass I was missing in Dublin. [Ibid.] 365: And tell me, how do you manage to get so much ass?at ass, n.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 178: ‘God save the King.’ ‘Bollocks the King.’.at ballocks!, excl.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 303: ‘Tone, pride has you at its mercy.’ ‘Has me by the very ballocks.’.at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 40: For the first time in months I’ve got a few beans.at beans, n.1
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 23: I’m making sixty-three thousand big bucks a year.at big bucks, n.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 282: I prefer to feel that the Big Chief up there started us with Adam and Eve.at big boss, the, n.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 169: Clocklan, I’m suffering from a woeful case of blackdog.at black dog, n.2
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 166: I should have been a priest and have [...] a housekeeper with boobs like pyramids.at boob, n.3
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 113: Soles of the feet warming deliciously and the brown gargle as they say was putting the mind afloat.at brown gargle (n.) under brown, adj.2
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 273: Jolly good show, this. Quite. In fact, bung, frightfully ho.at bung ho, adj.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 276: Lilly, I never get tired of your white thirty-four year old bubas, buns or beauties. Or will I get over how much I like to imagine them under that green pajama top.at buns, n.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 165: These ould bastards who come in at night full of red biddy and do their business all over the floors.at do one’s business (v.) under business, n.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 69: I know how you go and butter up your professors.at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 48: Get down there in that little nest of a kitchen and buzz on the coffee.at buzz, v.1
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 204: I think I’m going to go bye-bye.at go (to) bye-bye(s) (v.) under bye-bye(s), n.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 39: Jesus, I’m excited, like I was going to lose my cherry.at lose one’s cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 155: Please, God, don’t let Skully meet Marion or my goose will be cooked beyond recognition.at cook someone’s goose, v.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 364: My efforts met with blowing and no throwing which makes me think I need to see the coo coo doctor.at cuckoo, adj.
1955 J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 35: When I’m [...] sacked in with some lovely French doll.at doll, n.1