Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Lays of Ind choose

Quotation Text

[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind 29: When, at sunset, most carefully dressed, / To the bandstand he cantered at ease. / His mind was completely at rest, / For he thought he was rather the cheese.
at cheese, the, n.
[Ind] ‘Aleph Cheem’ Lays of Ind 66: Then thirty-two shikarrees black. / And tough as india-rubber. / Who’d run their fifty miles and back / To bring the sahib khubber.
at khubber, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 142: Then came cards, and soda-and-b.
at soda and B, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 54: How he held the taunt above her / ‘If you wish it, cut and run!’.
at cut and run, v.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 184: Of b.-and-s. a parting sup.
at b and s, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 80: Sir Thingamy So-and-so.
at so-and-so, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 76: But let a woman just tip the scale, / And Rudge was a terrible ass.
at ass, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 213: [T]hey bagged their prize, / What a son-in-law he would be!
at bag, v.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 93: He was publicly proud of his hats; / When he mentioned his bags, eloquent.
at bags, n.2
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 37: But, yes, I promised half the sircar backsheesh if I passed.
at baksheesh, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 102: ‘Sa’ib take bundook, and shoot him as he sleeping, full of wife!’ .
at bandook, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 119: ‘I rode [...] slap bang at their front’.
at slap-bang, adv.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 35: At first I liked his coming, for I liked the yarns he spun, /Of course in English; very little native ‘bât’ was done.
at bat, n.4
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 138: There's Tomkins, our Civil and Sessions Judge, / A pompous, ponderous Beak.
at beak, n.1
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 229: The mouth gets pinched, and, oh! the nose / Looks very like a beak.
at beak, n.2
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 53: How he'd not permit her dancing / [...] / (‘Gussy, isn’t he a bear?’) .
at bear, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 50: [We’ll keep him there fast / As long as the beggar will stay.
at beggar, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 25: [T]he big-wigs apparently scenting some talent.
at bigwig, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 181: He looked as if he fed on rue, / This melancholy bird.
at bird, n.1
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 67: His shop, in fact, in Blacktown soon the leading shop became,.
at black town (n.) under black, adj.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 13: And bellowed from the shrouds, ‘Hi! what the blazes! who are you?’.
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 173: [V]owing the bloods of the present day / Were made of brown paper, or very soft clay.
at blood, n.1
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 3: Vowing this was a deuce / Of a swell bobberee.
at bobbery, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 156: ‘How I tell, sar? Plenty thieves, sar; Other servants bobbery pack’.
at bobbery pack (n.) under bobbery, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 62: A bobby stopped the fray.
at bobby, n.1
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 7: Till, after a good twenty minutes of play, / He wished the whole boiling would nautch it away.
at whole boiling lot, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 41: No Government owned it [i.e. an island] / A few years ago, / Till Great Britain boned it.
at bone, v.1
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 7: She wore genuine rubies / Presented by boobies.
at booby, n.1
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 142: Then there was brandy-pawnee round / And the Parson ate some cake.
at brandy-pawnee (n.) under brandy, n.
[Ind] ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1905) 42: John Bull is the servant of Mr Bill Sikes.
at John Bull, n.1
load more results