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[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 100: I’se been a list’nin’ to yo’ all’s argufyin’.
at argufy, v.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 60: She calls you ‘baby’ and you call her ‘ootsy’.
at baby, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 41: The egg was a back number egg. It wasn’t exactly bad – but the hen that laid it must have had a grudge against the farmer.
at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 28: A policeman is a ‘blue’ bottle.
at bluebottle, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 75: I told him the bed had become ‘a little buggy’.
at buggy, adj.1
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 80: Say, Fitzsimmons, come up here and bust this feller in de snoot.
at bust, v.1
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 29: mid.: What became of your newspaper? end.: Busted up.
at bust, adj.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 42: Jays are called ‘clams’.
at clam, n.1
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 29: Is it possible that my hyphenated sentences are entirely too complex for the intellect contained in that diminutive cocoanut?
at coconut, n.1
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 99: Only poor people eat punkin pi – and that’s right for punkin pi was never made for the upper crust.
at upper crust, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 26: I’ll bore a hole through your Yankee carkiss darn quick.
at darn, adv.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 15: I saw a black dog change color in a minute. Somebody hit it with a stone and it became a ‘yeller’ dog.
at yellow dog, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 82: Wherever there was a crowd of Dutch voters I talked German to them.
at Dutch, adj.2
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 96: The Irishman said, ‘Dutchy, I’ll give you a fair chance to see who gets this meat.’.
at Dutchy, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 30: She’d wipe the floor up with him / When she was full of beer.
at wipe the floor (with), v.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 11: Go on! Kiss a girl through the telephone?
at go on!, excl.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 74: I went this morning to get a drink and he refused to ‘hang up’ the drinks. So I left.
at hang up, v.1
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 121: I – stands for ‘Iron’ that we shoot with our might.
at iron, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 102: He was a Chinyman [...] Dis yaller-faced nigger took me offen de hook and let me flop ’round in de grass.
at nigger, n.1
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 29: My mother was a lady – / She never lost a chance / To let the neighbours see that / She wore my daddy’s pants.
at wear the pants (v.) under pants, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 110: She won’t be home until she makes a ‘pick-up’.
at pick-up, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 73: That last song took the rag off the bush.
at take the rag off the bush (v.) under rag, n.1
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 11: Go on! Kiss a girl through the telephone? [...] It might suit an old bald-headed rooster like you, but I want my electricity fresh from the battery.
at rooster, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 42: Dudes are called ‘sardines’.
at sardine, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 75: mid.: You should not drink at all. end.: I had to. I was awful sick. I had the shakes.
at shakes, the, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 42: Lawyers are called ‘sharks’.
at shark, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 42: Little impudent boys are ‘shrimps’.
at shrimp, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 80: Say, Fitzsimmons, come up here and bust this feller in de snoot.
at snoot, n.
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 23: Some snoozer in the crowd hollered ‘Milk,’ and my horse stopped.
at snoozer, n.1
[US] F. Dumont Dumont’s Joke Book 83: The young sprig jumped up with a flourish, exclaiming, ‘Maw foine fellow, what’s your chawge?’.
at sprig, n.1
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