# a clockwork orange appendix
this is a list of the nadsat words and other fictional terms found in the book by anthony burgess a clockwork orange along with meanings
the nadsat slang word is shown with its closest english meaning or meanings
terms in a clockwork orange
nadsat: english: word origin
## a
appy polly loggies: apologies: highly exaggerated pronunciation of apologies - burgess's homage to james joyce's alp in finnegans wake
## b
baddiwad: bad: reduplication of bad young child talk
banda: band
bedways: to bed
biblio: library
bitva: battle
bolnoy: sick
bolshy: big / great
brooko: belly
bruiseboys: police officers / security guards
## c
cantora: office
chelloveck: person / man / fellow
chepooka: nonsense
choodessny: wonderful
clockwork: the term "a clockwork orange" refers to a human who is mechanically responsive as is the character of alex in the story after ir series of trials and 'modifications'
clop: to knock
crark: to howl - blend of crow & bark
crast: steal / rob / robbery
cutter: money - from cockney rhyming slang derived from bread-and-butter
## d
dook: trace / ghost
domy: house
droog: friend
## e
eggiweg: egg
espresso rapido: train
eunuch jelly: gutless coward
## f
fashed: bothered / annoyed / tired
filmdrome: cinema
firegold: strong drink
flatblock: block of flats / apartment block
forella: trout / old lady
## g
glazz / glazzies / glazzballs: eye eyes (also used to refer to nipples)
gloopy: stupid
gooly: to walk
grahzny: dirty
gulliver: head
guttiwuts: guts
## h
hen-korn: chickenfeed
horrorshow: good well wonderful excellent
## j
jammiwam: jam
jeezny: life
## l
litso: face
lomtick: piece / bit
## m
malchick: boy
malenky: little / tiny
moloko plus: milk laced with drugs
## n
nadsat: teenage
## r
rabbit: work
rassoodock: mind
rookerful: handful
## s
silver-like: shiny
skitebird: shithead
smeck: laugh
sophistos: sophisticated people
spatchka: to sleep
splodge splosh: splash:
starry: ancient / old
strack: error
## t
tolchock: punch / hit / smack / push / slap
## u
ultra-violets: an umbrella term for the assorted violent crimes perpetrated by youth gangs
## v
viddy: see
## w
warbles: songs / recordings
## y
yarbles / yarblockos: testicles
## z
zasnoot: sleep
// republic of bob