NADSAT 101

What is Nadsat and what does it have to do with the Clockwork Orange?

Nadsat is a fictional language that Anthony Burgess created which has slang words and Russian language influences. Here are some words and their definitions;

baboochka	old woman
bedways	to bed
biblio	library
Bog	God
boohoo, boohoohoo	to cry
cancer	cigarette
cutter	money
devotchka	young woman
drencrom	drug
em	mother
faggy/fagged	tired, exhausted
filmdrome	cinema
fist	to punch
godman	priest, chaplain
gulliver	head
guttiwuts	guts
horn	to cry out
in-out in-out, the old in and out	sexual intercourse
korova	cow
lubbilubbing	making love
moloko	milk
Moloko plus	milk laced with drugs
nadsat	teenage
oozhassny	terrible
orange	man, person
pee and em	father and mother
snuff it	commit suicide
tick-tocker	heart
vellocet	drug
viddy	see
warbles	songs, recordings
yahoodies	Jews

For the complete dictionary you can visit our resource: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:A_Clockwork_Orange

Do you want to test yourself if you get the Nadsat language? We guessed so! Here’s an entertaining link for you!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexmagdaleno/clockwork-orange-slang-is-hard