Captain Caldwell used to say that no cock could be truly game whose mother was not a blue hen. As Caldwell commanded the 1st Delaware regiment in the war, the State of Delaware was…
The Monday before Lent, spent in dissipation. (German, der blaue Montag.) It is said that dissipation gives everything a blue tinge. Hence “blue” means tipsy. (See Blue Devils .) Drink…
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or A fit of the blues. A fit of spleen, low spirits. Roach and Esquirol affirm, from observation, that indigo dyers are especially subject to melancholy; and that those who dye scarlet are…
A flag with a blue ground and white square in the centre, hoisted as a signal that the ship is about to sail. Peter is a corruption of the French partir (leave or notice of departure). The…
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(A). A harlot. Nares cells us that “a blue gown was a dress of ignominy for a harlot in the House of Correction.” (See below.) Blue-gowns The bedesmen, to whom the kings of Scotland…
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or Blue Bonnets. The Scotch. “He is there, too, ... and a thousand blue caps more.” —Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Blue-…
He has hoisted the blue flag. He has turned publican or fishmonger, in allusion to the blue apron at one time worn by publicans, and still worn by fishmongers. Source: Dictionary of…
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