Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Under the Harrow choose

Quotation Text

[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 22: You blokes must teach him. He’s an appie.
at appy, n.
[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 265: Bowser: a petrol pump. The name derives from the American firm, Bowser, which supplied the first pumps in South Africa.
at bowser, n.3
[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 160: They gazed at the evening line-up of the volkies, each with a jam tin to be half-filled with wine. This was the dop system whereby a daily wine ration was sometimes given in lieu of money.
at dop, n.1
[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 129: We referred to them (the Afrikaners) as jaapies and sit as far away as possible from them.
at jaap, n.
[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 228: We really jolled, and the blacks can do that!
at jol, v.
[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 175: At the back was a cabbage patch and the kleinhuisie (Little house), the euphemism for the long-drop lavatory.
at kleinhuisie, n.
[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 88: They’re all married; the youngest was eighteen (a shotgun marriage).
at shotgun wedding, n.
[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 87: An Afrikaans businessman seemed to think that he must be able to verneuk another person to be successful.
at verneuk, v.
[UK] S. Gordon Under the Harrow 160: They gazed at the evening line-up of the volkies, each with a jam tin to be half-filled with wine. This was the dop system whereby a daily wine ration was sometimes given in lieu of money.
at volkie, n.
no more results