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The Bend for Home choose

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[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 276: Arthur Daley, she says. I like that thing. He’s always chancing his arm.
at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 284: Don’t you know what having a monkey on your shoulder means? No. It means having an addiction, he said.
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 86: See that lake? [...] There was a race-course here, if you can believe it, and bedad he fell in and drowned.
at bedad!, excl.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 294: I farted. Who’s blowing? Maisie asks with happy eyes.
at blow, v.1
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 303: He was inside playing the box to himself. He put the accordion aside and we sipped a glass of whiskey.
at box, n.1
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 244: She turns to the box.
at box, n.1
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 192: She can box the cards like a pro.
at box, v.1
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 97: It’s Mandrax. It will bring you down, said his friend.
at bring down, v.1
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 227: We stepped out of the shower and Hugh McGovern said, Are yous bum boys or what?
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 126: After a week’s inactivity she took up a job as a char.
at char, n.1
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 231: I’ll clatter you round the oxter.
at clatter, v.2
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 135: The shit smell from the clatty toilets seeped through the disinfectant.
at clatty, adj.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 44: He cracked in my face. A thick foggy smell of fart reached me.
at crack, v.1
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 176: Isn’t Dermot a funny wee cunt, she said.
at cunt, n.
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 203: Mal Elliot is half shot and Dermot is half cut.
at half-cut, adj.2
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 218: I was dog tired.
at dog-tired (adj.) under dog, adv.
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 180: What happened to you? asked Lila Little. I was in a fight. You look a dread, she said.
at dread, n.1
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 174: Oh but I do. You do in your gob.
at in your face! (excl.) under face, n.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 66: Mrs Smith wants a cherry cake at five, my mother would say. Does she, the faggot.
at faggot, n.1
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 50: The long fang, yellow and topped with black, sat in a saucer.
at fang, n.
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 177: She fried us up a feed.
at feed, n.
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy The Bend for Home 175: One minute you’re mad for it, the next you’re not.
at mad for it, adj.
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 176: She drove me home at 4 in the morning and taught me to French-kiss in Main Street.
at French kiss, v.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 190: Peadar, he shouted [...] come back here! But the storyteller said I have the gawks and continued down the road. [Ibid.] 208: I have the dry gawks, said the policeman.
at gawks, the, n.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 291: She asked me to phone Una. So I said Una was in America. Phone, said your mother, for the gig of the thing and she started laughing.
at gig, n.1
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 176: Look at the gimp of him, said Dinny.
at gimp, n.1
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 280: She gives off to me if I’m angry – That’s your mother you’re talking to, she says.
at give off (v.) under give, v.2
[Ire] (ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 162: We all know about you, you glick fucker.
at glick, adj.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 220: Instead tried to move Christine Keeler. No go.
at no go, phr.
[Ire] D. Healy Bend for Home 86: We’re on holidays, said Matt Donnelly. You are in my hat. Do you think I’m a gom?
at my hat!, excl.
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