Give us a rest! phr. (American).—Cease talking! An injunction upon a bore.
To give nature a fillip, verb. phr. (old).—To indulge in wine or women.—B.E. (1690).
To give way, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To permit the sexual embrace: by women only.
1870. Weekly Times, 1 May. She was sorry to say, she gave way to him. (Laughter.) Mr. Maude remarked she was a foolish woman, and, being a widow, ought to have known what giving way would come to.—Complainant said of course she did, but she thought he meant to marry her.
[Other combinations will be found under the following; auctioneer; back cap bag; bail; baste; beans; beef; biff; black eye; bone; bucket; bullet; bull's feather; clinch; double; fig; gas; go by; gravy; hoist; hot beef; jesse; kennedy; key of the street; land; leg up; lip; miller; mitten; mouth; needle; office; points; pussy; rub of the thumb; sack; sky-high; slip; tail; taste of cream; turnips; weight; white alley; word.]
Giver, subs. (pugilistic).—A good
boxer; an artist in punishment
(q.v.).
1824. Reynolds, ('Peter Corcoran'), The Fancy, p. 73. She knew a smart blow from a handsome giver Would darken lights.
Gixie, subs. (obsolete).—A wanton
wench; a strumpet; an affected
mincing woman.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes. Faina, a mincing, coie, nice, puling, squeamish woman, an idle huswife, a flurt, a gixgi. Also as Foina [i.e., 'a polecat'; while Foirare = 'to lust for beastly leacherie, to be salt as a bitch.']
1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie, s.v. Gadrouillette, a minx, gigle, flirt, callet gixie: (a fained word applyable to any such cattell). [See further, gadriller (a wench) = 'to rump or play the rig'].
Gizzard, to fret one's gizzard,
verb. phr. (common).—To worry
oneself. See Fret.
To stick in one's gizzard, verb phr. (common).—To remain as something unpleasant, distasteful or offensive; to be hard of digestion; to be disagreeable or unpalatable.
c. 1830. Finish of Tom and Jerry, p. 241. It had always stuck in his gizzard to think as how he had been werry cruelly used.
To grumble in the gizzard, verb. phr. (common).—To be secretly displeased. Hence, grumble-gizzard (q.v.).
Gladstone, subs. (common)—1.
Cheap claret. [Mr. Gladstone,
when in office in 1869, reduced
the duty on French wines.] See
Drinks.
1876. Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly, ch. ix. Claret certainly good, too—none of your Gladstone tap; sherry probably rather coarse.
1885. A. Birrell, Obiter Dicta, p. 86. To make him unbosom himself over a bottle of Gladstone claret in a tavern in Leicester Square.
2. colloquial).—A travelling bag. [So named in honour of Mr. Gladstone.]
Gladstonize, verb (colloquial).—To
talk about and round; to
evade or prevaricate; to speak
much and mean nothing.
Glanthorne, subs. (old).—Money.
For synonyms, see
Actual and Gilt.
1789. Parker Life's Painter, p. 42. Drop the glanthorne = part with money.
