Hey readers, this is the glossary for of words Alex and his droogs use in A Clockwork Orange. I’ll be updating this (hopefully) regularly with new words as I come across them. I’m not sure how to change the font color on the list, though.
- Veck- man
- Filly- mess with
- Hooked- pulled
- Rot- mouth
- Zoobies- dentures/teeth
- Rookers- arms/hands
- Chumbling- hard to understand/ mumbling
- Shooms- noise
- Goober- lips
- Platties- clothes
- Starry- old
- Horrorshow- of good quality
- Smeck- laugh
- Pot- belly
- Tolchock- push/hit
- Snigger- A laugh (real word)
- Goloss- voice
- Shoomy
- Yahma- hole
- Cutter- money
- Hen-korm- chicken feed
- Razrezzed- Ripped
- Appy polly loggies- Apologies
- Groodies- breasts
- Viddy- see
- Tolchock- Punch, hit
- Nochy- night
- Cancer- cigarette
- Skorry- quick, quickly
- Filmdrome- Cinema
- Hound-and-horny- corny
- Autos- car
- Polyclef- skeleton key
- Guttiwuts- guts
- Cheena- woman
- Lubbilubbing- making love
- Luna- the moon
- Bezoomny- mad, crazy
- Sharp- female
- Moodge- Husband
- Kleb- bread
- Maslo- butter
- Needles- Penis (possibly may have been an innuendo)
- Pyahnista- drunk person
- Moodge- man
- Slooshy- to hear/listen
- Keeshkas- guts
- Decrep- elder
