1892. Tit Bits, 19 Mar., p. 417, c. 1. Millbank for thick shins and graft at the pump.
Verb (common).—1. To work. Fr., bausser; membrer.
2. (American).—To steal.
3. (old).—To cuckold; to plant horns.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, sv.
4. (American).—To sole old boots. Cf., Goose and Translate.
Grampus, subs. (colloquial).—A
fat man. For synonyms, see
Forty-guts.
To blow the Grampus. (nautical).—To drench; and (common), to sport in the water.
Grand, subs. (colloquial).—Short
for 'grand piano.'
1891. Morning Advertiser, 28 Mar. A precocious young relative is now about to take the daïs. There she stands, violin in hand, and there begins the preliminary scramble on the hired grand.
Adj. (colloquial).—A general superlative.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, p. 19. Wot we want in a picter is flavour and 'fetch,' and yours give it me grand.
To do the Grand, verb. phr. (common).—To put on airs. For synonyms, see Lardy-dah.
Grand Bounce. See Bounce.
Grandmother. To see one's
grandmother, verb. phr. (common).—To
have a nightmare.
To see (or have) one's grandmother (or little friend, or auntie) with one. verb. phr. (common).—To have the menstrual discharge. See Flag.
To shoot one's grandmother, verb. phr. (common).—To be mistaken; to have found a mare's nest; to be disappointed. Commonly 'You've shot your grannie.'
To teach one's grandmother (or grannie) how to suck eggs, verb. phr. (common).—To instruct an expert in his own particular line of business; to talk old to one's seniors.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1892. Globe, 27 Jan., p. 1, c. 5. Evidently he did not consider, as Englishmen seem to do, that grandmothers possess no more knowledge than is required to efficiently suck eggs.
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger's Sweetheart, p. 210. 'Confound you stupid, what do you take me for, that you try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, p. 77. She's a teaching 'er grandmother, she is, although she's a littery swell.
My grandmother's review. subs. phr. (obsolete).—The British Review. [The nickname was Lord Byron's.]
Grand-strut, subs. (old).—The
Broad Walk in Hyde Park.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, i., 4. We'll start first to the show shop of the metropolis, Hyde Park! promenade it down the grand strut.
Granger, subs. (American political).—1.
A member of the Farmers'
Alliance; a secret society, nominally
non-political, but really tal ing
a hand in politics when occasion
offered to favour agricultural
interests. [During the decade of
years ending 1870, it attained
to great numerical strength, and
extended throughout the United
States.] See Agricultural
Wheel.
