The vulgus ignobilë. A “tag” is a doe in the second year of her age; a “rag,” a herd of deer at rutting time; “bobtail,” a fawn just weaned. According to Halliwell, a sheep of the first…
To sit upon one's skirt. To insult, or seek occasion of quarrel. Tarlton, the clown, told his audience the reason why he wore a jacket was that “no one might sit upon his skirt.” Sitting…
i.e. pother (Hibernian). Halliwell gives us blother, which he says means to chatter idly. `Sir,' cries the umpire, `cease your pother, The creature's neither one nor t'other.' Lloyd: The…
(To ), among commercial travellers, is to shirk the table d'hôte and take something substantial for tea, in order to save expense. Halliwell says, “to take care after having been…
A blustering cheat. Like bully, it is sometimes used without any offensive meaning. Thus the Host, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, addresses Sir John Falstaff, Ford, and Page, etc., as…
To go through the chatterhouse. Between the legs of one or more boys, set apart like an inverted A, who strike, with their hands or caps, the victim as he creeps through. Halliwell (…
Ungainliness; perversity, an evil temper; malice prepense. Halliwell gives cuss = surly. “The turkey-cock is just as likely as not to trample on the young turkeys and smash them, or to…
A masher. One who renders himself conspicuous by affectation of dress, manners, and speech. The word was first familiarised in London in 1881, and is a revival of the old word dudes (…
(A). A lob (says Halliwell) is “the last person in a race.” (Somersetshire). (Welsh llob, a dolt, our “lubber.”) “A lazy lobkin, like an idle loute.” Breton: Olde Madcappes, etc. (1602…
An almanack. William Lilly, the almanack-maker and astrologer, is so called by Butler. It is said to have been the “name” of an eminent Jewish astrologer. (Halliwell: Archaic Dictionary.)…
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