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The Great Australian Lover and Other Stories choose

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[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 41: There were fifty entries for the Chugalug Championships.
at chug-a-lug, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 63: Euphemisms for vomit [...] include spue, burp, hurl, the big spit, the long spit.
at big spit, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 58: He bull-dusted and yak-yaked while the ex-warder paid for the beer.
at bulldust, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 35: What did he find in his pocket? —A dirty old bumper, a cigarette butt.
at bumper, n.4
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 63: Euphemisms for vomit [...] include spue, burp, hurl, the big spit, the long spit.
at burp, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 63: Euphemisms for vomit [...] include [...] the technicolour laugh and, in Queensland, the chuckle.
at chuckle, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 64: The Yodeller yodelled into the chunder bucket in full technicolour.
at chunder, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 61: The Champion Chunderer from Cooper’s Creek.
at chunder, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 120: He bought a few cattle and poddy-dodged a few more.
at poddy dodger, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 71: Let us do a moonlight flit.
at moonlight flit, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 36: The recognised world champion grog gargler.
at gargler, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 138: It’s guineas to gooseberries you’ll have a shocking air trip.
at guinea to a gooseberry (n.) under guinea, n.2
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 63: Euphemisms for vomit [...] include spue, burp, hurl, the big spit, the long spit.
at hurl, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 155: By joves, Slice.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 121: Laughing-sided boots, shirts and all that whitefella stuff.
at laughing-side(d) boot (n.) under laughing, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 9: Strike me dead if I tell a lie.
at strike me dead! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 61: [He] ended up as some kind of wharfie over in Pommy Land.
at Pommieland (n.) under pommie, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 22: I have obtained [...] inside information about a thirty-three-to-one pop in the last race.
at pop, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 42: The Gargler is still up there fleecing Yanks right and left, especially provos.
at provo, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 121: Cunning as a lavatory rat.
at cunning as a shithouse rat (adj.) under shithouse rat, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 5: A good ring keeper or any experienced swy player can pick up a butterflied penny from the genuine spinning article.
at ring, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 63: Listen, mate, that’s no spit, that’s the greatest technicolour yodel in history.
at technicolour yawn, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 63: Euphemisms for vomit [...] include spue, burp, hurl, the big spit, the long spit, throw, and whip o’ will.
at throw, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 140: The world’s worst urger, was there, that’s what.
at urger, n.
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