Cut. Drunk. A little cut over the head;
slightly
intoxicated. To cut; to leave a person
or company. To cut
up well; to die rich.
To cut. (Cambridge.) To renounce acquaintance
with any
one is to cut him. There are
several species of the cut.
Such as the cut direct, the cut indirect,
the cut sublime,
the cut infernal, &c. The cut direct,
is to start across the
street, at the approach of the obnoxious
person in order to
avoid him. The cut indirect, is to
look another way, and
pass without appearing to observe him.
The cut sublime,
is to admire the top of King’s College
Chapel, or the beauty
of the passing clouds, till he is out
of sight. The cut
infernal, is to analyze the arrangement
of your shoe-strings,
for the same purpose.
To cut bene. To speak gently.
To cut bene whiddes;
to give good words. To cut queer
whiddes; to give foul
language. To cut a bosh, or a flash;
to make a figure.
Cant.
To cutty-eye. To look out of the
corners of one’s eyes,
to leer, to look askance. The cull
cutty-eyed at us; the
fellow looked suspicious at us.
Dab. An adept; a dab at any feat or exercise.
Dab,
quoth Dawkins, when he hit his wife on
the a-se with a
pound of butter.
Dace. Two pence. Tip me a dace; lend
me two pence.
Cant.
DADDLES. Hands. Tip us your daddle; give
me your hand.
Cant.
Daddy. Father. Old daddy; a familiar
address to an old
man. To beat daddy mammy; the first
rudiments of
drum beating, being the elements of the
roll.
Daggers. They are at daggers drawing; i.e.
at enmity,
ready to fight.
Dairy. A woman’s breasts, particularly
one that gives
suck. She sported her dairy; she
pulled out her breast.
Daisy Cutter. A jockey term for a horse
that does not
lift up his legs sufficiently, or goes
too near the ground,
and is therefore apt to stumble.
Daisy kickers. Ostlers at great inns.
Dam. A small Indian coin, mentioned in the
Gentoo code
of laws: hence etymologists may,
if they please, derive
the common expression, I do not care a
dam, i.e. I do
not care half a farthing for it.
DAMBER. A rascal. See dimber.
Damme boy. A roaring, mad, blustering
fellow, a scourer
of the streets, or kicker up of a breeze.
Damned soul. A clerk in a counting
house, whose sole
business it is to clear or swear off merchandise
at the
custom-house; and who, it is said, guards
against the crime
of perjury, by taking a previous oath,
never to swear truly
on those occasions.


