| 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