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[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 157: And I’d run a house of accommodation too! [...] Why shouldn’t I? – the girls give value for money to their clients, and I would give value for money to the girls.
at accommodation house, n.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 159: Blimey! worrer ole pot an ’pan I ’ad — bless yer ’eart.
at pot and pan, n.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 50: ‘I do!’ he called back over his shoulder. ‘And how!’.
at and how!, excl.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 159: Where ’e’s a-goin’ teh, they ’ave teh go dahn two flights er apples an’ pears.
at apples (and pears), n.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 194: ‘Solly’s deal I say!’ ‘Arsoles!’.
at arseholes! (excl.) under arsehole, n.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 83: He’s the dirtiest bastard of a case-keeper in London! [...] He gets girls away, sends white girls out to work on their backs among the bloody niggers. [Ibid.] 127: Haven’t I got to get on my back to earn two pounds for the bastards.
at get on one’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 285: Here’s my bins (Kid indicated a pair of field-glasses on a side table).
at bins, n.2
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 216: Wai’er! Three skewers! – mean – lean cures – you know, hob-nobs-bobs-your-uncle!
at bob’s your uncle, phr.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 149: ‘Who wants ’im? – who wants the boss-eyed sod?’ [...] ‘Don’t you call my bloke boss-eyed – you poxy mare!’.
at boss-eyed, adj.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 162: Fancy telliing such a foolish lie; it will be all bowled out in a day or two.
at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 216: B****r the bloody invention.
at bugger, v.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 126: I’m pinched again I tell ye! and I’ll be b******d if it’s not the fourth time in three months!
at buggered, adj.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 49: Gah! Blimey! [...] I’ll go the whole bloody bundle in this place one of these nights, I know I will.
at go the bundle (v.) under bundle, n.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 175: The other day she took – and bunged the lot on a gee-gee!
at bung, v.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 162: Pringle was to come to the grand bust-up of a house-warming party.
at bust-up, n.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 127: ‘Arrah, he’s the dirtiest bastard of a case-keeper in London!’ ‘A case-keeper?’ repeated Gwenda, looking puzzled. Cora explained in a more sudbdued tone: ‘A knocking-shop, you know.’.
at case keeper (n.) under case, n.3
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 164: My God, Jerry, it’s awful, having a cat’s lick in a basin!
at cat-lick (n.) under cat, n.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 277: Would Gwenda like a hundred to one ‘cert’ for the three-thirty?
at cert, n.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 37: I’d be bloody sorry to do what you do – and chance it!
at chance it (v.) under chance, v.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 178: Go on! Go on! p**s off! Don’t stand ’ere chewin’ the rag! hustle, you bloody bitches, will you?
at chew the rag, v.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 124: I’m no chicken, I’m over thirty.
at chicken, n.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 15: His last fight was with ‘Young Chocolate Brown,’ the big nigger from Kansas.
at chocolate, n.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 19: If Cora did slap Fishhooks ‘round the chops’.
at chops, n.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 246: God! I’ve been spat on all over the face by the poxiest lot of old cows in London.
at cow, n.1
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 237: Those dang motors ’ud be a-rushin’ through a-killin’ folk.
at dang, adj.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 41: ‘But tell me Jerry – those darkie girls?’ ‘Prostitutes!’.
at darkie, adj.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 159: I sees yeh got the fisherman’s daughter laid on an’ all.
at fisherman’s (daughter), n.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 234: Diddler machines were [...] innocuous enough to look at, just big, shining metal boxes with a lever at the side and a little square window in front. Lulu dropped a penny in the slot, pulled the lever – then click! the machine was in motion – [...] the three wheels came to rest, each showing the picture of a piece of fruit.
at diddler (machine) (n.) under diddler, n.2
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 61: Ohhh, I’m dog tired!
at dog-tired (adj.) under dog, adv.
[UK] J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 68: I know you’ll enjoy it, and I want you to ‘drop’ a bit after.
at drop, v.2
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