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Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 66: How’s a fag, Chopsey?at how’s a...?, phr.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 66: How’s a fag, Chopsey? Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 65: We were blowing down to Sorrento t’other day on one of them Bay boats. I was with the Heart and Arrow Push. Soon’s we had a cook at the engines, gorblime, we were pinched, five of us – two of them smart Ds picked us for being suspicious looking characters.at have a cook, v.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 64: katie: Don’t you worry. I’ll come back all right, bright and early too. chopsey: Take the acid off.at take the acid off (v.) under acid, n.2
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 64: Had a barney, Chopsey?at barney, n.2
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 66: I fell in. Nine months I done I was dead innocent. [...] Blime, I fell in, a bird.at bird, n.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 71: What the blazing!at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 74: You’re the bloke, Bongo!at bloke, n.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 71: chopsey: I’d get lots o’ things for you, Katie: [...] I don’t forget how you stuck to me. / katie: Ah, blow the froth off. / chopsey: Straight, I’ve had a bit of luck at last.at blow the froth off!, excl.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 62: You busk outside the pubs for beer. Oh, you’re boshter with the tarts, ain’t you, singing your pretty songs.at boshter, adj.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 65: ‘We were on a good wicket, when Pete says to his bit o’ fluff: ‘Would you like to see a real solid bracelet, duckie?’ [...] She did do a bunk.’.at bracelets, n.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 61: Give it a breeze.at breeze, n.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 68: Constable: You’re qualifying for a stiff for the crust. / Smithy: (innocently) What have I done, Mr. Jones? / Constable: Nothing that I know of. That’s why you’ll get it. You’re likely to bring a sixer. I’m warning you.at bring, v.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 62: Oh, gorblime, chain it up!at chain up!, excl.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 73: chopsey: I ain’t been too good to you, I know. I want to make it up. [...] katie: It’s all over now. You can’t ring the changes on me.at ring the changes, v.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 73: chopsey: So you want to give me the chuck – me for – Bongo Williams. / katie: [...] Yes, you’ve done your dash, Chopsey. / chopsey: Bongo – the beer sparrer?at give someone the chuck (v.) under chuck, n.2
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 70: What’s up? Blime, you’ve cleaned the knives. [...] Where did you pinch that lovely cray? Ain’t he bosker.at cray, n.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 68: constable: You’ll have to get busy soon, Smithy. The Law’s strict nowadays. smithy: I’ve only been out three weeks. constable: You’re qualifying for a stiff for the crust. smithy: (innocently) What have I done, Mr. Jones? constable: Nothing that I know of.at crust, n.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 65: We were blowing down to Sorrento t’other day on one of them Bay boats. [...] Soon’s we had a cook at the engines, gorblime, we were pinched, five of us – two of them smart Ds picked us for being suspicious looking characters.at D, n.2
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 73: Chopsey: So you want to give me the chuck – me for – Bongo Williams. / Katie: [...] Yes, you’ve done your dash, Chopsey. / Chopsey: Bongo – the beer sparrer?at do one’s dash (v.) under dash, n.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 66: We’re all taking the mugs down. One bloke, he says, does the trick with a silk hat on the Stock Exchange, and a shyster mine. We do it with a jemmy.at take down, v.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 67: Yow! Edge it. Here’s big Jones, the cow.at edge, v.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 66: Chopsey: I’d sooner bring a moon than work for a dirty Dago. / Smithy: I don’t want to go up to the farm.at farm, n.2
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 63: You ain’t over the fence yet.at over the fence under fence, n.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 64: Ain’t she a high-stepper?at high-stepper, n.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 69: Constable: They’re [his hands] more used to picking pockets than skinning rabbits. / Smithy: That’s red hot. You can’t book me for the vag.at red-hot, adj.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 70: What’s up? Blime, you’ve cleaned the knives. Cake? ’Struth, we are hotties. Boronia? Are you expecting the gawd mayor for tea? Where did you pinch that lovely cray? Ain’t he bosker.at hottie, n.2
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 63: You put me all in a haze. I didn’t want to hurt you. ’Struth, turn it up.at turn it up!, excl.
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 64: You brought it on yourself, didn’t you. I don’t job women.at job, v.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 63: You give a man the joes.at joes, n.1
Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 70: It’s a Kathleen Mavourneen, you know. It may be for years, or it may be for ever. You’d better watch yourself.at kathleen mavourneen, n.
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