A Clockwork Orange (Film)

A Clockwork Orange (Film) Glossary

Appy-Polly-Loggy

Apology

Auto

Car

Chai

Tea

Charles, Charlie

Chaplain

Crast

To steal or rob; robbery

Cutter

Money

Devotchka

Girl

Droog

Friend

Gloopy

Stupid

Govoreet

To speak or talk

Gulliver

Head

Guttiwuts

Guts

Horrorshow

Good, well (adjective)

In-Out-In-Out

Sex

Krovvy

Blood

Malanky

Small, tiny

Malchick

Boy

Millicents

Policemen

Moloko

Milk, or short for the Milk Bar

Nadsat

The name of the language that Anthony Burgess created for A Clockwork Orange, which is a mixture of Cockney slang, Russian, and baby talk. "Nadsat" comes from the Russian suffix for "teen".

Nochy

Night

Omni

Smart, brainy

Plott

Body

Prestoopnik

Criminal

Pretty Polly

Money

Ptitsa

"Chick", girl

Rabbit

Job

Rook; rooker

Arm, hands

Shagged and fagged and faffed

Tired; worn out

Sloosh; slooshy

To hear or listen

Slovo

Word

Sophistos

Sophisticated types

Spatchka

Sleep

Tashtook

Handkerchief

Tolchock

To hit or push; blow, beating

Vellocet, Synthemesc, or drencrom

Slang terms for LSD, Synthetic Mescaline, and adrenochrome (all psychedelic drugs).

Viddy

To see or look

Yahoodies

Jews

Yarbles

Testicles

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