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Entries releated to DOG

 

APOTHECARY'S, or LAW LATIN		Barbarous Latin, vulgarly called Dog Latin, in Ireland Bog Latin.
BANDOG		A bailiff or his follower; also a very fierce mastiff: likewise, a bandbox.
BARKING IRONS		Pistols, from their explosion resembling the bow-wow or barking of a dog. IRISH.
BITCH		A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may he gathered from the regular Billinsgate or St. Giles's answer - "I may be a whore, but can't be a bitch."
BOG LATIN		Barbarous Latin. Irish. - See DOG LATIN, and APOTHECARIES LATIN.
BOOBY, or DOG BOOBY		An awkward lout, clodhopper, or country fellow. See CLODHOPPER and LOUT. A bitch booby; a country wench.
BOW-WOW		The childish name for a dog; also a jeering appellation for a man born at Boston in America.
BOW-WOW MUTTON		Dog's flesh.
BUFE		A dog. Bufe's nob; a dog's head.
BUFE NABBER		A dog stealer.
BUFFER		One that steals and kills horses and dogs for their skins; also an inn-keeper: in Ireland it signifies a boxer.
BULL DOGS		Pistols.
BUTCHER'S DOG		To be like a butcher's dog, i.e. lie by the beef without touching it; a simile often applicable to married men.
CAT'S FOOT		To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife hen-pecked. To live like dog and cat; spoken of married persons who live unhappily together. As many lives as a cat; cats, according to vulgar naturalists, have nine lives, that is one less than a woman. No more chance than a cat in hell without claws; said of one who enters into a dispute or quarrel with one greatly above his match.CAT LAP. Tea, called also scandal broth. See SCANDAL BROTH.
CLAPPERDOGEON		A beggar born.
CUCKOLD		The husband of an incontinent wife: cuckolds, however, are Christians, as we learn by the following story: An old woman hearing a man call his dog Cuckold, reproved him sharply, saying, 'Sirrah, are not you ashamed to call a dog by a Christian's name ?' To cuckold the parson; to bed with one's wife before she has been churched.
CUR		A cut or curtailed dog. According to the forest laws, a man who had no right to the privilege of the chase, was obliged to cut or law his dog: among other modes of disabling him from disturbing the game, one was by depriving him of his tail: a dog so cut was called a cut or curtailed dog, and by contraction a cur. A cur is figuratively used to signify a surly fellow.
DOG		An old dog at it; expert or accustomed to any thing. Dog in a manger; one who would prevent another from enjoying what he himself does not want: an allusion to the well-known fable. The dogs have not dined; a common saying to any one whose shirt hangs out behind. To dog, or dodge; to follow at a distance. To blush like a blue dog, i.e. not at all. To walk the black dog on any one; a punishment inflicted in the night on a fresh prisoner, by his comrades, in case of his refusal to pay the usual footing or garnish.
DOG BUFFERS		Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs with their flesh.
DOG IN A DOUBLET		A daring, resolute fellow. In Germany and Flanders the boldest dogs used to hunt the boar, having a kind of buff doublet buttoned on their bodies, Rubens has represented several so equipped, so has Sneyders.
DOG LATIN		Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used by the lawyers in their pleadings.
DOG VANE		A cockade. SEA TERM.
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.
DOGGED		Surly.
DOGGESS, DOG'S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA		Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
DRAM		A glass or small measure of any spirituous liquors, which, being originally sold by apothecaries, were estimated by drams, ounces, etc. Dog's dram; to spit in his mouth, and clap his back.
FEUTERER		A dog-keeper: from the French vautrier, or vaultrier, one that leads a lime hound for the chase.
FICE, or FOYSE		A small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs. See FIZZLE.
GIBBERISH		The cant language of thieves and gypsies, called Pedlars' French, and St. Giles's Greek: see ST. GILES'S GREEK. Also the mystic language of Geber, used by chymists. Gibberish likewise means a sort of disguised language, formed by inserting any consonant between each syllable of an English word; in which case it is called the gibberish of the letter inserted: if F, it is the F gibberish; if G, the G gibberish; as in the sentence How do you do? Howg dog youg dog.
GNARLER		A little dog that by his barking alarms the family when any person is breaking into the house.
HOBBLEDYGEE		A pace between a walk and a run, a dog-trot.
HOOK AND SNIVEY, WITH NIX THE BUFFER		This rig consists in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and is carried on thus: Three men, one of who pretends to be sick and unable to eat, go to a public house: the two well men make a bargain with the landlord for their dinner, and when he is out of sight, feed their pretended sick companion and dog gratis.
HUNT'S DOG		He is like Hunt's dog, will neither go to church nor stay at home. One Hunt, a labouring man at a small town in Shropshire, kept a mastiff, who on being shut up on Sundays, whilst his master went to church, howled so terribly as to disturb the whole village; wherefore his master resolved to take him to church with him: but when he came to the church door, the dog having perhaps formerly been whipped out by the sexton, refused to enter; whereupon Hunt exclaimed loudly against his dog's obstinacy, who would neither go to church nor stay at home. This shortly became a bye-word for discontented and whimsical persons.
JOLLY DOG		A merry facetious fellow; a BON VIVANT, who never flinches from his glass, nor cries to go home to bed.
KEMP'S MORRIS		William Kemp, said to have been the original Dogberry in Much ado about Nothing, danced a morris from London to Norwich in nine days: of which he printed the account, A. D. 1600, intitled, Kemp's Nine Days Wonder, etc.
LAW		To give law to a hare; a sporting term, signifying to give the animal a chance of escaping, by not setting on the dogs till the hare is at some distance; it is also more figuratively used for giving any one a chance of succeeding in a scheme or project.
LAZY		As lazy as Ludman's dog, who leaned against the wall to bark. As lazy as the tinker, who laid down his budget to f - t.
LINE		A term for the act of coition between dog and bitch.
NOISY DOG RACKET		Stealing brass knockers from doors.
OLD DOG AT IT		Expert, accustomed.
PALLIARDS		Those whose fathers were clapperdogens, or beggars born, and who themselves follow the same trade: the female sort beg with a number of children, borrowing them, if they have not a sufficient number of their own, and making them cry by pinching in order to excite charity; the males make artificial sores on different parts of their bodies, to move compassion.
PROUD		Desirous of copulation. A proud bitch; a bitch at heat, or desirous of a dog.
PUG		A Dutch pug; a kind of lap-dog, formerly much in vogue; also a general name for a monkey.
QUIZ		A strange-looking fellow, an odd dog.
RUM BUGHER		A valuable dog.
SAD DOG		A wicked debauched fellow; one of the ancient family of the sad dogs. Swift translates it into Latin by the words TRISTIS CANIS.
SALESMAN'S DOG		A barker. Vide BARKER.
SETTER		A bailiff's follower, who, like a setting dog follows and points the game for his master. Also sometimes an exciseman.
SIDE POCKET		He has as much need of a wife as a dog of a side pocket; said of a weak old debilitated man. He wants it as much as a dog does a side pocket; a simile used for one who desires any thing by no means necessary.
SIZAR		Formerly students who came to Cambridge University for purposes of study and emolument. But at present they are just as gay and dissipated as their fellow collegians. About fifty years ago they were on a footing with the servitors at Oxford, but by the exertions of the present Bishop of Llandaff, who was himself a sizar, they were absolved from all marks of inferiority or of degradation. The chief difference at present between them and the pensioners, consists in the less amount of their college fees. The saving thus made induces many extravagant fellows to become sizars, that they may have more money to lavish on their dogs, pieces, etc.
TROT		An old trot; a decrepit old woman. A dog trot; a gentle pace.
TYKE		A dog, also a clown; a Yorkshire tyke-