The hero of Smollett's novel so called. A savage, ungrateful spendthrift; fond of practical jokes to the annoyance of others, and suffering with evil temper the misfortunes brought on by…
A savage; a very ill-mannered person. In Gulliver's Travels the Yahoos are described as brutes with human forms and vicious propensities. They are subject to the Houyhnhnms, or horses with…
Bailiffs, sheriffs' officers, and other law menials. Any rough fellow employed to annoy another is the employer's myrmidon. The Myrmidons were a people of Thessaly who followed Achilles to…
(A). A man of relentless, savage disposition is sometimes so called. A “bull-dog courage” is one that flinches from no danger. The “bull-dog” was the dog formerly used in bull-baiting.…
(2 syl.). Priests of the savages of Florida. Each priest has his special idol, which must be invoked by the fumes of tobacco. (American Indian mythology.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
An ill-mannered lout. The cub of a bear is said to have no shape until its dam has licked it into form. A bear's a savage beast, of all Most ugly and unnatural; Whelped without form until…
An idol of the savages of Panama', to whose honour slaves are burnt to death. (American mythology.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DabbatDab, Din A B C D…
The Hades of the ancient Gauls. A dark region infested by serpents and savage beasts. Here the wicked are chained in loathsome caverns, plunged into the lairs of dragons, or subjected to a…
(Natty). The nickname of Natty Bumpo (q.v.), in Cooper's novel, called The Pioneers. A half-savage and half-Christian hero of American wild life. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…
