Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Time Remembered choose

Quotation Text

[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 69: When a ball went into the area — the ‘airy’ we called it — we had to climb the railings [...] to rescue it.
at airy, n.1
[UK] (ref. to 1920s) R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 52: During the Beaver Craze you scored points for every beard you saw.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 114: Don’t get upset with me, boychick.
at boychick (n.) under boy, n.2
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 155: I went to chat with friends, to try and ‘get off’ (the then current phrase) with a girl.
at get off with (v.) under get off, v.2
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 125: The Lane on Sundays, the blaring jazzy lane.
at jazzy, adj.1
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 163: The old jossers wree incredulous [...] ‘Gobby’ Evans [...] lover of language, you old Welsh charmer.
at josser, n.4
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 125: He was a leader of a race gang known to the police [...] as the Aldgate Mob. They were razor slashers who frequented the racecourses.
at mob, n.2
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 124: Prozzies were younger, more attractive. Whores were debauched old bags.
at prossie, n.
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 52: Get out of the bleeding way you shitbag!
at shitbag (n.) under shit, n.
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 69: America borowed freely from Yiddish [...] ‘stumer,’ ‘schmaltzy,’ ‘shamus’.
at stumer, n.1
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 69: If a short goatee was a one-er and a French taz a two-er, then Zaida’s beard was a ten-er.
at taz, n.
[UK] R.L. Finn Time Remembered 52: ‘Mucking Jew bastard!’ ‘You, mucking bastard!’ said Zaida. ‘I’ll knock your mucking block off.’.
at mucking, adj.
no more results