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Clockwork Orange - Glossary of Nadsat Language

Words that do not appear to be of Russian origin are distinguished by asterisks.

(We are indebted to the kindness of Nora Montesinos and a number of her correspondents.)

*appy polly loggy - apology baboochka - old woman *baddiwad - bad banda - band bezoomny - mad biblio - library bitva - battle Bog - God bolnoy - sick bolshy - big, great brat, bratty - brother bratchny - bastard brtiva - razor brooko - belly brosat - to throw bugatty - rich cal - feces *cancer - cigarette cantora - office carman - pocket chai - tea *charles, charlie - chaplain chasha - cup chasso - guard cheena - woman cheest - to wash chelloveck - person, man, fellow chepooka - nonsense choodessny - wonderful *chumble - to mumble clop - to knock cluve - beak collocoll - bell *crack - to break up or "bust" *crark - to yowl? crast - to steal or rob; robbery creech - to shout or scream *cutter - money dama - lady ded - old man deng - money devotchka - girl dobby - good *dook - trace, ghost domy - house dorogoy - dear, valuable dratsing - fighting *drencrom - drug droog - friend *dung - to defecate dva - two eegra - game eemya - name *eggiweg - egg *filly - to play or fool with *firegold - drink *fist - to punch *flip - wild? forella - "trout" gazetta - newspaper glazz - eye gloopy - stupid *golly - unit of money goloss - voice goober - lip gooly - to walk gorlo - throat govoreet - to speak or talk grahzny - dirty grazzy - soiled gromky - loud groody - breast gruppa - group *guff - guffaw gulliver - head *guttiwuts - guts *hen-korm - chickenfeed *horn - to cry out horrorshow - good, well *in-out in-out - copulation interessovat - to interest itty - to go *jammiwam - jam jeezny - life kartoffel - potato keeshkas - guts kleb - bread klootch - key knopka - button kopat - to "dig" koshka - cat kot - tomcat krovvy - blood kupet - to buy lapa - paw lewdies - people *lighter - crone? litso - face lomtick - piece, bit loveted - caught lubbilubbing - making love *luscious glory - hair malchick - boy malenky - little, tiny maslo - butter merzky - filthy messel - thought, fancy mesto - place millicent - policeman minoota - minute molodoy - young moloko - milk moodge - man morder - snout *mounch - snack mozg - brain nachinat - to begin nadmenny - arrogant nadsat - teenage nagoy - naked *nazz - fool neezhnies - underpants nochy - night noga - foot, leg nozh - knife nuking - smelling oddy knocky - lonesome odin - one okno - window oobivat - to kill ookadeet - to leave ooko - ear oomny - brainy oozhassny - terrible oozy - chain osoosh - to wipe otchkies - eyeglasses *pan-handle - erection *pee and em - parents peet - to drink pischcha - food platch - to cry platties - clothes pletcho - shoulder plenny - prisoner plesk - splash *plosh - to splash plott - body podooshka - pillow pol - sex polezny - useful *polyclef - skeleton key pony - to understand poogly - frightened pooshka - "cannon" prestoopnik - criminal privodeet - to lead somewhere *pretty polly - money prod - to produce ptitsa - "chick" pyahnitsa - drunk rabbit - work, job radosty - joy raskazz - story rassoodock - mind raz - time razdraz - upset razrez - to rip, ripping rook, rooker - hand, arm rot - mouth rozz - policeman sabog - shoe sakar - sugar sammy - generous *sarky - sarcastic scoteena - "cow" shaika - gang *sharp - female sharries - buttocks shest - barrier *shilarny - concern *shive - slice shiyah - neck shlem - helmet *shlaga - club shlapa - hat shoom - noise shoot - fool *sinny - cinema skazat - to say *skolliwoll - school skorry - quick, quickly *skriking - scratching skvat - to grab sladky - sweet sloochat - to happen sloosh, slooshy - to hear, to listen slovo - word smeck - laugh smot - to look sneety - dream *snoutie - tobacco? *snuff it - to die sobirat - to pick up *sod - to fornicate, fornicator soomka - "bag" soviet - advice, order spat - to sleep spatchka - sleep *splodge, splosh - splash spoogy - terrified *Staja - State Jail starry - ancient strack - horror *synthemesc - drug tally - waist *tashtook - handkerchief *tass - cup tolchock - to hit or push; blow, beating toofles - slippers tree - three vareet - to "cook up" *vaysay - washroom veck - (see chelloveck) *vellocet - drug veshch - thing viddy - to see or look voloss - hair von - smell vred - to harm or damage yahma - hole *yahoodies - Jews yahzick - tongue *yarbles - testicles yeckate - to drive *warble - song zammerchat - remarkable zasnoot - sleep zheena - wife zoobies - teeth zvonock - bellpull zvook - sound