A Clockwork Orange Glossary

Glossary of Terms

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

britva

razor

brooko

belly

brosay

to throw

bugatty

rich

cal

feces

cantora

office

carman

pocket

chai

tea

chasha

cup

cheena

woman

cheest

to wash

chelloveck

person, man, follow

choodessny

wonderful

clop

beak

collocoll

bell

crast

to rob or steal; robbery

creech

to shout or scream

dama

lady

ded

old man

deng

money

devotchka

girl

dobby

good

domy

house

dorogoy

dear, valuable

dratsing

fighting

dva

two

eegra

game

eemya

name

forella

"trout"

gazetta

newspaper

glazz

eye

gloopy

stupid

goloss

voice

goober

lip

gooly

to walk

gorlo

throat

govorett

to speak or talk

grahzny

dirty

grazzy

soiled

gromky

loud

groody

breast

gruppa

group

gulliver

head

horrorshow

good, well

interessovat

to interest

itty

to go

jeezny

life

kartoffel

potato

keeshkas

guts

kleb

bread

knopka

button

kopat

to "dig"

lewdies

people

litso

face

loveted

caught

lubbilubbing

making love

malenky

little, tiny

malso

butter

merzky

filthy

messel

thought, fancy

mesto

place

millicent

policeman

minoota

minute

molodoy

young

nuking

smelling

oddy knocky

lonesome

odin

one

ookadeet

to leave

ooko

ear

oomny

brainy

oozhassny

terrible

oozy

chain

otchkies

eyeglasses

peet

to drink

pischcha

food

platch

to cry

platties

clothes

plesk

splash

pletcho

shoulder

plott

body

podooshka

pillow

pol

sex

polezny

useful

pony

to understand

poogly

frightened

pooshka

"cannon"

ptitsa

"chick"

pyahnitsa

drunk

rabbit

work, job

radosty

joy

raskazz

story

rassoodock

mind

raz

time

razdraz

upset

razrez

to rip, ripping

rock, rooker

hand, arm

rot

mouth

rozz

policeman

sabog

shoe

sakar

sugar

sammy

generous

scotenna

"cow"

shaika

gang

sharries

buttocks

shazat

to say

shest

barrier

shiyah

neck

shlapa

hat

shlem

helmet

shoom

noise

shoot

fool

shvat

to grab

skorry

quick, quickly

sladky

sweet

sloochat

to happen

sloosh, slosshy

to hear, to listen

slovo

word

smech

laugh

smot

to look

sneety

dream

sobirat

to pick up

soomaka

"bag"

soviet

advice, order

spat

to sleep

spatchka

sleep

starry

ancient

strack

horror

tally

waist

tolchock

to hit or push;blow, beating

tomtick

piece, bit

toofles

slippers

tree

three

vareet

to "cook up"

veck

see chelloveck

veshch

thing

viddy

to see or look

voloss

hair

von

smell

vred

to harm or damage

yabzick

tongue

yahma

hole

yeckate

to drive

zammechat

remarkable

zasnoot

sleep

zhenna

wife

zoobies

teeth

zvonock

bellpull

zvook

sound

* appy polly loggy

apology

* cancer

cigarette

* charles, charlie

chaplain

* chumble

to mumble

* crack

to break up or "bust"

* crark

to yowl?

* cutter

money

* dook

trace, ghost

* drencrom

drug

* dung

to defecate

* eggiweg

egg

* filly

to play or fool with

* firegold

drink

* fist

to punch

* flip

wild?

* golly

unit of money

* guff

guffaw

* gulliwuts

guts

* hen-korm

chickenfeed

* horn

to cry out

* in-out in-out

copulation

* jammiwam

jam

* lighter

crone?

* luscious glory

hair

* mounch

snack

* nazz

fool

* pan-handle

erection

* pee and em

parents

* plosh

to splash

* polyclef

skeleton key

* pretty polly

money

* sarky

sarcastic

* sharp

female

* shilarny

concern

* shive

slice

* shlaga

club

* shriking

scratching

* sinny

cinema

* skolliwoll

school

* snoutie

tobacco?

* snuff it

to die

* sod

to fornicate, fornicator

* splodge, splosh

splash

* spoogy

terrified

* Staja

State Jail

* synthemesc

drug

* tashtook

handkerchief

* tass

cup

* vaysay

washroom

* vellocet

drug

* warble

song

* yahoodies

Jews

* yarbles

testicles

chepooka

nonsense

droog

friend (ie: my droogies)

kootch

key

koshka

cat

kot

tomcat

krovvy

blood

kupet

to buy

lapa

paw

malchick

boy

moloko

milk

moodge

man

morder

snout

mozg

brain

nachinat

to begin

nadmenny

arrogant

nadsat

teenage

Nadsat glossary

Nadsat words that do not seem to be of Russian origin are distinguished by asterisks.

nagoy

naked

neezhnies

underpants

nochy

night

noga

foot, leg

nozh

knife

okno

window

oobivat

to kill

osoosh

to wipe

plenny

prisoner

prestoopnik

criminal

privodeet

to lead somewhere

prod

to produce