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[UK] Foote The Minor 56: I must banter the cit.
at banter, v.
[UK] Foote Minor in Works (1799) I 242: He is damn’d rich, has beaucoup de guineas.
at beaucoup, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 41: Mrs Cole: He and Jenny Cummins drank three flasks [...] last night. Loader: What, and bilk thee of thy share.
at bilk, v.
[UK] Foote The Minor 81: Sir, Sir, we are all in the wrong box, my scheme is blowen up.
at blown, adj.
[UK] Foote The Minor 81: Sir, Sir, we are all in the wrong box, my scheme is blowen up].
at in a box under box, n.1
[UK] Foote The Minor 32: Capot me, but those lads abroad are pretty fellows.
at capot me!, excl.
[UK] Foote The Minor 55: This is doing business. This Pinch is a sure card.
at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
[UK] Foote The Minor 28: He has recourse [...] to the cent. per cent. gentry, the usurers.
at cent per cent, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 27: I can slip, shuffle, cog or cut with the best of ’em.
at cog, v.
[UK] Foote The Minor 56: A bonny auctioneer, that shall dispose of ’em all in a crack.
at in a crack under crack, n.1
[UK] Foote Minor in Works (1799) I 247: Crop me, but this Squintum has turn’d her head.
at crap, v.1
[UK] Foote The Minor 44: Crop me, but this Squintum has turn’d her head.
at crop, v.
[UK] Foote The Minor 60: The duce!
at deuce, the, phr.
[UK] Foote The Minor 50: What the devil can I do?
at what the devil...?, phr.
[UK] Foote The Minor 42: No knock-me-down doings in my house [...] no rioters.
at knock-me-down, adj.
[UK] Foote The Minor 66: Had the flam been fact, your behaviour was natural enough.
at flam, n.1
[UK] Foote The Minor 32: Come, shall we have a dip in the history of the four kings this morning?
at history of the four kings, the, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 53: He did not understand trap, knows nothing of the game.
at game, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 35: De opera, pardonnez, by gar dat is meat for your master.
at gar, n.1
[UK] Foote The Minor 14: Our modern lads [...] have their gaming clubs in the Garden.
at Garden, the, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 20: I was produced, Sir, by a left-handed marriage [...] between an illustrious lamp-lighter and an eminent itinerant cat and dog butcher.
at left-handed, adj.
[UK] Foote The Minor 31: shift: Who knows whether this Germaniz’d genius has parts to comprehend. [...] loader: Fire him, snub-nosd son of a bitch. Levant me, but he got enough last night to purchase a principality amongst his countrymen, the High-dutchians and Hussarians.
at levant me! (excl.) under levant, v.
[UK] Foote The Minor 91: Let’s go see Foote! ah, Foote’s a precious limb!
at limb, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 31: Lurch me at four, but I was mark’d to the top of your trick, by the baron, my dear.
at lurch, v.1
[UK] Foote Minor in Works (1799) I 257: She has brought a pretty piece of man’s meat already: as sweet as a nosegay, and as ripe as a cherry.
at meat, n.
[UK] Foote Minor in Works (1799) I 242: De opera, pardonnez, by gar dat is meat for your master.
at meat for your master (n.) under meat, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 64: Insolent mechanic!
at mechanic, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 39: Why, you jade, you look as rosy this morning, I must have a smack at your muns.
at muns, n.
[UK] Foote The Minor 73: Some bidders are shy, and only advance with a nod; but I nail them.
at nail, v.
[UK] Foote The Minor 53: Slam me, but he has nick’d the chance.
at nick, v.1
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