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[US] H. Ellison ‘The Whimper of Whipped Dogs’ Deathbird Stories (1978) 29: I’m mad as a mudfly, for chrissakes!
at mad as..., adj.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Along the Scenic Route’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 40: ‘I’ll get you, you beaver-sucker!’ he howled.
at beaver sucker (n.) under beaver, n.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘Along the Scenic Route’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 44: ‘Boze, you de-mote me, true!’ ‘And stop calling me a bozo, you lousy degenerate.’.
at bozo, n.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘The Whimper of Whipped Dogs’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 28: No Amherst intellectuals begging you to save them from creeping faggotry by permitting them to stick their carrots in your sticky little slit?
at carrot, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Neon’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 91: Get offa there, you freako-pervo-devo!
at devo, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 129: ‘Nobody’s been spooning it.’ [...] ‘Gaffing. That’s what he meant. Spooning’s another word for it. Some guys use a little piece of plastic, or a wire, shove it down through the escalator, it kicks the machine.’.
at gaff, v.1
[US] H. Ellison ‘Along the Scenic Route’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 40: The Merc sprayed JP-4 gook and water in a wide fan from its jet nozzle.
at gook, n.4
[US] H. Ellison ‘The Whimper of Whipped Dogs’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 29: I have to play patty-cake with the ministers and other sanctified holy-joe assholes.
at holy Joe, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Along the Scenic Route’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 42: You’re no hot-rodder, George. You’re a family man, and this is a family car! [Ibid.] 43: It was a standard trick used by rods to rattle their opponents?
at hot-rodder, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Neon’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 91: Get offa there, you freako-pervo-devo!
at -o, sfx
[US] H. Ellison ‘The Whimper of Whipped Dogs’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 25: She would have pegged him as an anti-feminist, ordinarily.
at peg, v.4
[US] H. Ellison ‘Neon’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 91: Get offa there, you freako-pervo-devo!
at pervo, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Neon’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 189: When the marks, kadodies and reubens fresh from Michegan’s Ionia State Fair descended on sinful Times Square.
at reuben, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Along the Scenic Route’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 45: George, you’re a family man, not a rodder!
at rodder, n.
[US] H. Ellison ‘Along the Scenic Route’ in Deathbird Stories (1978) 42: I’ve had it with these fuzzfaces [...] you remember when that punk stuffer ran us into the abutment?
at stuffer, n.2
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