question, 'Do you know So-and-So?' For synonyms, see Monocular Eyeglass.
1383. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 'The Miller's Tale.' And at the window she put out hir hole.
1540. Lindsay, Thrie Estaits, line 2174. Lift vp hir clais: Kis hir hoill with your hart.
1614. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, v., 3. A pox o' your manners, kiss my hole here, and smell.
1649. Drummond, Madrigals and Epigrams, 'A Jest' (Chalmers, English Poets, 1810, x., 667). She turned, and turning up her hole beneath, Said, 'Sir, kiss here.'
d. 1732. Gay, Tales 'In Imitation of Chaucer's Style' (Chalmers, English Poets, 1810, x., 504]. Thou didst forget to guard thy postern, There is an hole which hath not crossed been.
Verb (venery).—To effect intromission; to put in (q.v.). Hence, Holed, adj. = in (q.v.).
A hole in one's coat, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A flaw in one's fame; a weak spot in one's character. To pick a hole in one's coat = to find a cause for censure.
1789. Burns, Verses on Capt. Grose. If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it.
TO MAKE (or BURN) A HOLE IN one's pocket, verb. phr. (colloquial).—Said of money recklessly spent.
TO MAKE A HOLE IN ANYTHING, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To use up largely.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson's Wedding, iii., 5 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 456). Do it then, and make a hole in this angel.
TO MAKE A HOLE IN THE water, verb. phr.—(common).—To commit suicide by drowning.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, p. 76. I should just MAKE A HOLE IN THE water, if 'tworn't for the wife and the kids.
TO MAKE A HOLE, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To break; to spoil; to upset; to interrupt.
Thus to MAKE A HOLE IN ONE'S manners = to be rude; to make A HOLE IN ONE'S REPUTATION = to betray, to seduce; to make A HOLE IN THE SILENCE = to make a noise, to raise cain (q.v.).
TOO DRUNK TO SEE A HOLE in a ladder, phr. (common).—Excessively intoxicated. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
Hole-and-corner, adj. (colloquial).—Secret;
underhand; out
of the way: e.g., hole-and-corner
work = shady business.
Also (venery) = copulation. [Cf.,
Hole, subs. sense 1.]
Holer (also Holemonger), subs.
(colloquial).—A whoremaster
(cf., Hole, subs., sense 1). Also
(old), a harlot; a light woman (cf.,
Hole, verb.). Hence, Holing
= whoring.
Holiday, adj. (old).—Unskilled;
indifferent; careless.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Holiday, a holiday bowler, a bad bowler.
Blind Man's Holiday. See ante.
TO HAVE A HOLIDAY AT Peckham, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To go dinnerless. All holiday at Peckham = no work and nothing to eat. [A play upon words.] See Peckish.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum. All holiday at Peckham. . . . a saying signifying that it is all over with the business or person spoken of or alluded to.
