Burgess was heavily influenced by Joyce, who wrote hundreds of pages of multilingual puns as part of his technique of depicting the workings of a dreaming mind and called it Finnegans Wake.

If you read the 1977 Burgess novel Abba Abba, you’ll find out what a “dumpendebat” is!

I know Burgess invented his own slang for “A Clockwork Orange”, but do you think this was also created by him?

The nuclear-powered hangline from Roelantsen Station got Val to 57th and Third, Manhattan, in a little over twenty minutes. The streets and bars in Basso were lively. The rain had thickened to the first light snow. Christmas was very much in the air. There were drunks, there was violence. Underprivileged Teutprot youth picked quarrels with privileged blacks and browns and blackbrowns, jeering and provoking in their underprivileged argot: “A sniff in the kortevar, that what you cry for, yeled? A prert up the cull, a prang on the dumpendebat?”