Work up a stake | make money to claim land |
Blow their stake | lose and/or spend all their money |
Pulp Magazine | inexpensive fiction magazines; a sensational magazine; |
Pants just crawling with ants | Curley is restless and nervous |
Looloo | an attractive woman |
Roll your hoop | a popular amusement of children in the past was running while rolling a large metal hoop with a stick. Telling Curley’s wife to “roll your hoop,” is Candy’s way of calling her young and immature |
Bindle | Blanket rolled with one’s belongings |
live off the fatta the lan’ | living off what the land has to offer. Refers to the best of everything. |
Derision | (n) Ridicule; mockery |
Gravity | (n) Seriousness |
Reverently | (adv) marked by profound awe and respect |
Liniment | (n) a medicinal fluid rubbed into the skin |
Morosely | (adv) with sullen or gloomy disposition |
Pugnacious | (adj) ready to fight |
Mollified | (v) soothed |
Indignation | (n) anger aroused by something unjust, mean or unworthy |
Of Mice and Men – Vocabulary and Slang
April 30, 2020