soupente = loft); avoir un polichinelle dans le tiroir (= to have a Jack-in-the-box in the drawer); en avoir dans le ventre (= to have a belly-ful); avoir son tablier lève (= to have got one's apron up); avoir le mou enflé (= to be swelled in the soft); avoir avalé un pépin (= to have swallowed a seed); entrer dans l'infanterie (popular); avoir un député dans l'urne (popular); avoir une affaire cachée sous la peau (common); avoir mal au genou (= cf. to break one's knees); s'être fait arrondir le globe (popular); avoir un fédéré dans la casemate (common); se gâter la taille (= to spoil one's figure); avoir la maladie de neuf mois (common: cf. nine months' dropsy). Also une couleuvre or un chef-lieu d'arrondissement (= a pregnant woman).
German synonyms. Schwor or schwar (schwer = heavy).
Spanish synonyms. Arari; avari; barriga 'a boca; cambri; cambrobi; desembarcar; embarago.
3. (booksellers').—Costly.
4. (cricketters').—Rough; uneven: as applied to the ground.
Lumtum, subs. (American thieves').—A
fashionable thief.
1882. McCabe, New York, 221. Altogether my first evening among the lumtums panned out well.
Lun, subs. (old).—(1) A harlequin.—Grose
(1785). (2) A clown.—Matsell
(1859).
Lunan, subs, (vagrants').—A girl.
For synonyms see Titter. [From
the Romany].
Luncheon reservoir, subs. phr.
(common).—The stomach. For
synonyms see Victualling Office.
Lung-box, subs. (common).—The
mouth. For synonyms see Potato-trap.
Lungis, subs. (old).—An idle, lazy,
fellow.
1592. Nashe, Summer's Last Will [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), viii. 53]. There is not, goodman lungis.
1602. Dekker, Satiro-mastix [Nares]. Knaves, varlets! What lungis! give a dozen of stools there.
Lungs, subs. (old).—See quot.
1755.
1610. Jonson, Alchemist. That is his fire-drake, his lungs, his zephyrus, he that puffs his coals.
1755. Johnson, Dicty., s.v. Lungs. Formerly a cant term for a person denoting a large and strong-voiced man, as Coles has observed; and also a chymical servant, a sort of underwork-*man in the art.
Lunkhead, subs. (American).—An
ill-bred, ill-looking horse; a screw
(q.v.).
Lunk-headed, adj. (American).—Senseless.
Luny. See Loony.
Lurch, subs. (old).—A cheat.
d. 1597. Peele, Jests, 619. The tapster having many of these lurches fell to decay.
1606. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins [Grosart (1886), ii. 52]. Betting, lurches, rubber, and such tricks.
1604. Middleton, Black Book [in Century]. All such lurches, gripes, and squeezes, as may be wrung out by the fist of extortion.
