Dog Latin. Barbarous Latin, such as
was formerly used
by the lawyers in their pleadings.
Dog’s portion. A lick and a smell.
He comes in for only
a dog’s portion; a saying of one
who is a distant admirer
or dangler after women. See dangler.
Dog’s rig. To copulate till you
are tired, and then turn
tail to it.
Dog’s soup. Rain water.
Dog vane. A cockade. Sea term.
Dogged. Surly.
DOGGESS, dog’s wife or lady,
puppy’s mamma.
Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
Doll. Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest
woman,
like one of the children’s dolls
at Bartholomew fair. To
mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell,
or any other house
of correction.
Dolly. A Yorkshire dolly; a contrivance
for washing, by
means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tub,
which being turned
about, agitates and cleanses the linen
put into it, with
soap and water.
Domine do little. An impotent old fellow.
Domineer. To reprove or command in an insolent
or
haughty manner. Don’t think
as how you shall domineer
here.
DOMMERER. A beggar pretending that his tongue
has been
cutout by the Algerines, or cruel and
blood-thirsty Turks,
or else that he yas born deaf and dumb.
Cant.
Done, or done over. Robbed:
also, convicted or hanged.
Cant.—See do.
Done up. Ruined by gaming and extravagances.
Modern
Term.
Donkey, donkey Dick. A he, or
jack ass: called donkey,
perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like
gravity of
that animal, intitled also the king of
Spain’s trumpeter.
Doodle. A silly fellow, or noodle:
see noodle. Also a
child’s penis. Doodle doo,
or Cock a doodle doo; a
childish appellation for a cock, in imitation
of its note
when crowing.
Doodle sack. A bagpipe. Dutch.—Also
the private parts
of a woman.
Dopey. A beggar’s trull.
Dot and go one. To waddle:
generally applied to persons
who have one leg shorter than the other,
and who, as the
sea phrase is, go upon an uneven keel.
Also a jeering
appellation for an inferior writing-master,
or teacher of
arithmetic.
Double. To tip any one the double; to run
away in his or
her debt.
Double jugg. A man’s backside. Cotton’s Virgil.
Dove-tail. A species of regular answer,
which fits into
the subject, like the contrivance whence
it takes its name:
Ex. Who owns this? The dovetail
is, Not you by your
asking.


