The Routledge Dictionary of Historical SlangRoutledge, 2003. 9. 2. - 1066페이지 Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. |
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... drink, ex drink all out, to empty a glass, C.17–19, coll. 3. In error: C.19–20. 4. (The turf) unsuccessful: ca 1870– 1900. 5. (Stock Exchange) improving, cf. ALL IN for period and status. 6. Exhausted: athletics, ca 1880–1900; then gen ...
... drink, ex drink all out, to empty a glass, C.17–19, coll. 3. In error: C.19–20. 4. (The turf) unsuccessful: ca 1870– 1900. 5. (Stock Exchange) improving, cf. ALL IN for period and status. 6. Exhausted: athletics, ca 1880–1900; then gen ...
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... drink: punning tumbler: ca 1870–1900. another guess; another guess sort of man . (A) FLY (man): C.19. Perhaps ex another gates, but prob. direct from U.S. another point(, steward) ! Make that drink stronger!: nautical: from ca 1860 ...
... drink: punning tumbler: ca 1870–1900. another guess; another guess sort of man . (A) FLY (man): C.19. Perhaps ex another gates, but prob. direct from U.S. another point(, steward) ! Make that drink stronger!: nautical: from ca 1860 ...
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... drink more than one's share: ca 1850–1910. In G.A. Lawrence's best novel, Guy Livingstone, 1857, it occurs as a vbl n., back-handing. back-handed . Indirect; unfair: from ca 1815: coll >, by 1880, S.E.Dickens, 1865, has a back-handed ...
... drink more than one's share: ca 1850–1910. In G.A. Lawrence's best novel, Guy Livingstone, 1857, it occurs as a vbl n., back-handing. back-handed . Indirect; unfair: from ca 1815: coll >, by 1880, S.E.Dickens, 1865, has a back-handed ...
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... drink like a . To drink only when thirsty: late C.18–19. Contrast S.E. drink like a fish. beast with two backs . 'A man and woman in the act of copulation', Grose; gen. with make (the), as in Shakespeare's Othello. †by 1830 and prob ...
... drink like a . To drink only when thirsty: late C.18–19. Contrast S.E. drink like a fish. beast with two backs . 'A man and woman in the act of copulation', Grose; gen. with make (the), as in Shakespeare's Othello. †by 1830 and prob ...
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Eric Partridge. beenship *, see BENESHIP. beer , v. To drink beer; to become intoxicated: coll; ca 1780–1850, as in ... drinking: lower-class coll (–1909). More gen., on the BOOZE. beer,small , n. and adj. (Something) unimportant ...
Eric Partridge. beenship *, see BENESHIP. beer , v. To drink beer; to become intoxicated: coll; ca 1780–1850, as in ... drinking: lower-class coll (–1909). More gen., on the BOOZE. beer,small , n. and adj. (Something) unimportant ...
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