• Ajax

    Full definition of ajax

    Preposition

    1. (Polari) Nearby, over there
      • 1985, Peter Burton, Parallel Lives, page 38In the bar we would stand with our sisters, varda (look at) the bona cartes (male genitals) on the butch homme (man, pronounced o-me) ajax (nearby), who, if we fluttered our ogle riahs (eye lashes) at him sweetly, might just troll over to offer a light for the unlit vogue (cigarette) clenched between out teeth. explanations in round brackets are by Peter Burton
      • 2004, Paul Baker, Fanatabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, page 1Oh, vada well that omee-palone ajax who just trolled in.
      • 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957, page 152Ooh, will just vada that filiomi ajax.
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