Top 5 Favorite: Nadast Words

For his most famous work, Athony Burgess invented a slang for his characters. It's a bit Russian and rhyming with a cockney accent. These are my favorite nadast words:

#5: Cutter - Money

Origin: Rhyme; Bread and Butter.

Mostly what I love about Cutter is the word source. How can you not?

I tried to pay the veck, my brothers, but there was no cutter in my carman.

#4: Veck - Guy

Origin: Russian, short for chelovyek.

Here's what I love about Veck: Although it means guy, it sounds a lot like "fuck", and that fact adds a nice layer to Alex's way of speaking in novel.

The veck tolchocked me upside my gullier when he didn't get his cutter, and out the red red Krovvy went.

#3: Oddy-Knocky - Lonesome

Origin: Russian; corruption of odinok

Nothing in particular about this one, just the way it sounds.

There he left me, my brothers, all on my oddy-knocky.

#2: Appypolly Loggy - Apology

Origin: School boy term?

Ditto.

As I laid there, I thought like, Bog owes us one bolshy appypolly loggy.

#1: Horrorshow - Good/Well

Origin: Russian; corruption of khorosho

Again, here's a word that enforces Alex's character by its usage as well as being ironic to an extreme degree.

I pulled myself up, and looked at my reflection in the pool of my own krovvy, and I flashed my zoobies. He got me horrorshow, bothers. Real horrorshow.

Other favorites: Droog, Eggiweg, Viddy, Solvo, Moloko. Nadast dictionary and origin key.