D's Book Club - A Clockwork Orange

I’m trying my damnedest to get through this book, I really am, but I’m only a few pages in and I don’t understand. No, I mean I really don’t understand – an excerpt below:

Our pockets were full of deng, so there was no real need from the point of view of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till’s guts.

In (American) English – the hoodlums have dough in their pockets so they don’t need to roll an old man or hold up some broad for loot.

This book is now on sabbatical.