10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UP TO PUTTY»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Perhaps ex up to putty, but cf. dial. putty-brain, a blockhead, a mental defective (
EDD). Perhaps ex putty cove. putty and plaster on the Solomon knob, the. Be
silentl; the Master's coming: a Freemasons' c.p. intimation: from ca. 1870.
Masonic ...
Rosalind Fergusson putt 431 Pyrrhic. to put upon 1. WM > te (RA) ffifi: (I am in
Marcia 's hands. not prepared to be put upon. Sc hT^$?.s8 Ateffit □ ) 2. hum up to
putty m ; immmm ; tit to put up to 1. gtffi (3fiA) ftfcSE* (Who p«l 69 (It's up to putty] ...
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The Lingo Dictionary: Of Favourite Australian Words and Phrases
5. Conceited as in up yourself. up and under Rhyming slang for chunder. up a
gumtree Someone who is in a hopeless position or in strife. upper A stimulant
drug. upter No good or broken down. Short for up to putty or up to shit. up the
creek In ...
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
1984 putty noun >• up to putty no gOOd AUSTRALIA, 1976 • I had a beaut result
with a lady who couldn't read her kitchen scales so her cooking was 'up to putty'
she brought her scales in and we worked On them — www ans.com an. 2003 put
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Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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Anzac
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We 've been here now just about a month but we haven 't done anything exciting
yet such as bayonet charges killing Turks by the dozens etc. but I hope the time
won 't be too long as this trench warfare is up to putty. TJiere is always a chance ...
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Wordbook of Australian Idiom: Aussie Slang
... standard' 'This flamin' game is a dud match' flaming A weather comment (can
be too dry, wet, hot, windy,) etc 'This flamin' weather is up to putty (no good)'
flaming Nuisance— 'He's just a flaming pest' flaming Very ill, sick— 'I'm flamin'
crook, ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
[From the Austral. phr. up to putty in a mess.] uptight adjective orig US 1a
Nervously tense or angry. 1934–. C. YOUNG He looked worried. Really worried.
As the kids say, he was up-tight (1969). b Rigidly conventional. 1969–. E. M.
BRECHER ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Australian words and their origins
Dad answered: That's Putt's pine.' putty. [Perh. fig. use of putty a powder, in
contradistinction to snuff in the phr. up tosnttff'up to scratch' (see OED(S snuff, sb}
S a.).) In the phr. up to putty, worthless; ineffectual; 'in a mess'. 1916 'Men Or
Anzac' ...
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W.H. Downing's Digger dialects
1 UPJUMP — Upstart; interloper. [This is the earliest recorded occurrence. See
AND.] Bloody rotten up-jump never-come-down hooin' rotten mongrel bloody
stinkin' flamin' mongrel bloody bastard. O'Grady 1968 p. 89 UP TO PUTTY — Bad
; ...
Walter Hubert Downing, Jay Mary Arthur, William Stanley Ramson, 1990
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Diggerspeak: The Language of Australia at War
B. Denner (3RAR A Company) My Tour of Duty Chapter 1 <http://www.mannet.
com.au/gmm> [accessed 3 November 2004]. putty (especially in the phrase up to
putty) worthless; ineffectual; in a mess. Q. Green, in his CasselTs Dictionary of ...
