The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-02
STORIES OF THE DAY.
Some Late and Pertinent Additions to the
Slang Dictionary


Thanks to most ablo collaboration we
have been amply supplied with II rich
fund of material from which to select
tho present addition to its Invaluable re-
pository Of phrases caught in passing. :"
Dream. -Something desirable beyond
oil description. NO doubt about il.
aud on this will stake my reputation,
Defender is Il dream Mat Here
shoff. She WAS y vision of delight. -
Wordsworth
Dirt The reshufiied discard in the
national game of poker ~ believe that
Eny man who'd seek third term for
the presidency would monkey with tho
dirt "a. G. dated Bnxxards Bny).
Growler. Any vessel used to convey
beer from saloon to u residence.
IN. B.-ThiS word is often used as
synonymous with duck = The two
ARE carefully TO be distinguished. A
duck y is always concealed in n carpet
bag, top hat or basket
Darkened is tho Sunday doorway.
And tho poor are out of luck.
Silent rosts Che prowlinS 'growlor,"
Empty lies tho useless '.duck
-Ballaic of Better Days
Curves, to get on Toto solve any
ono's motives or limo of action. II did
not see how thcy could escape, for
wasn't on to their curves. Land
lord Tamsen OF the Ludlow Street Hos
telrie
High Hat.-An unusually large glass
of whisky. (Not to bo COMPOUNDED with
high collnr, which is torn applied
In tba rDnerosc,,y .,,,o,,,t &c -.
found on Concy Island beer. "Among
those who last Sunday abandoned the
high hats of tho city and quafrcd the
high collars by old ocean were Cherry
Hill Katie. Reddy the Ros ue, Tony the
Rat, Morty McThird and Micky Nc
Phin. Society Note
Pal. associate, friend.
Syn, "Pardy." travelling mate, 4"
"chum. Il have 400 visiting cards,
and l am willing to uso every ono of
them in calling on big folks with Wales,
my pal. Prom "A Peach Abroad. :"
Pencil Pusher. author, or news
paper man. II am pencil pushor
and my digital muscles are highly do
veloped ''-R. Harding Van Bibber in
An Open Confession Is Good For My
Sales. -
Dough. Mooney. Syn. "long green, :"
frog skin. "oof. -
Lot me make the dough of tho
country, I'll care for who make the
laws. john d. Rockefeller
Tire, to lose one To be mentally
unbalanced or iucapaoitated (The fig
ure is taken from hiking y Syn,
"nutty," WOODY"
1T seems to mo that ovory lawyer /
employ loses his tire. "-Hctty Green
Sight. out f.-Superlatively excel
lent. syn, very superior, >" way up "
perhaps corruption of tho German
ausgezeichnet,) "If anybody should ask
you my opinion of myself, either as "a
gentleman. an actor or a fighter you
may say for me that 1 am out OF
sight. john L. Sullivan in "What
Know About Chumps and Champions "
Peach. Something very cstimable
and desirable. A Mandatory expression
that applies with equal force TO any
thing, from = baseball player to u pos
sihle presidential candidate. Syn,
"Lally cooler. - bird, 80 daisy" (obs J
"Thcre is only one peach in America,
and l ath 1t. From Harmony or
Hominy," by an Anonymous Author.
On. Y, 1881
Finger, to give the TO request that
bill be- charged, Syn. ito hang up, F"
Ito put ON the slate " Il have lived in
many lands and known many men, but
] have never yet had occasion to give
the finger. Thomas Ochiltree in
IL Art de Vivre. -
Glad hand to give the. TO greet
efusively, with the expectation of re-
ceiving fGvors either bibulous, none
tary or Lospi.aole. Il gave every re-
former tho glad hand, and all got
was the marble heart Ollie Teall's
"Mr. Whisker. " (See Marble Heart. y
Heart. marble. A refusal 70 aid one S
fellow man
Kelly, John. In pool, tho green ball.
String. to TO trife with truth in
such way as to deceive. Also to make
game OF. Syn, Ito jolly" "to guy"
(old English and straight American, to
lie he strings me to the top of my
bent. The New Womans Ham.
let, " Edited By Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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