Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Southern Star choose

Quotation Text

[UK] Southern Star (London) 12 Apr. 4/5: Need I speak of the confinement of seamen in the ‘chokey’, which is [...] a dungeon, three feet in height, four feet in length, and two feet in breadth.
at chokey, n.
[UK] Southern Star (London) 16 Feb. 7/1: No sooner did Rowland Hill write his crack-brain pamphlet, then they forgot [...] .
at crackbrain, n.
no more results