1844. Selby, London by Night, i. 2. I see you are not too proud to shake hands with an old pal.
1858. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, iii. v. Ned and Phil, mutually agreed that their pal was 'a born genius.'
1871. Standard, 26 Dec. Their pals outside, the gentry who hocus Jack ashore in the east, pick the pockets of Lord Dundreary in the west.
1879. McCarthy, Donna Quixote, xxxvii. A coward like that couldn't even be true to his pal.
1882. Daily Telegraph, 7 Oct., 6, 1. The witness added that the parties were very good friends; in fact, they were pals together.
1891. Newman, Scamping Tricks, 70. I had an old pal with me.
1892. Chevalier, The Little Nipper [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 192]. 'E call 'is mother 'Sally,' and 'is father 'good old pally,' and 'e only stands about so 'igh, that's all!
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, v. His pals didn't seem to take notice.
Verb, (common).—1. To make friends with; to chum.
1879. Autobiography of a Thief, in Macmillan's Mag., xl. 500. I palled in with some older hands at the game.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 7. We'll pall off to Parry.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, xvii. I palled in with a lot more boys, done a bit of gonoffing or anything to get some posh, but it got too hot, all my pals got nicked, and I chucked it.
1898. Cigarette, 26 Nov., 13, 1. It's their weddin' day on Toosday; Married fifty year ago. That's a tidy time to pal it! More than I could do, I know!
2. (thieves').—See quot.
1851. Mayhew, London Lab. ix. 768. It was difficult to pall him upon any racket (detect him in any pretence).
Palace, subs. (police).—A police-station.
Palarie, verb, (vagrants').—To
talk: cf. palaver.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, xvi. Though they offered me lots of money to blow the gaff, I felt afraid to palarie a dickey for fear of being trapped. Ibid. She knew all the cant, and used to palarie thick to the slaveys.
Palatic, adj. (theatrical).—Drunk:
see Drinks and Screwed.
1885. The Stage, 28. Sandy told me he last saw him dreadfully palatic.
Palaver, subs. (colloquial Scots').—1.
A fussy and ostentatious
person: generally old palaver,
2. (general).—Conversation; discussion: specifically idle talk, flattery, or cajolery: also as verb. Hence, palaverer = a flatterer. [From Port. palavra (= talk)].—Grose (1785); Bee (1823).
1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, xli. None of your palaver.
1763. Foote, Mayor of Garratt, ii. 2. Have a good caution that this Master Mug does not cajole you; He is a damned palavering fellow.
1822. Douglas Jerrold, Black Ey'd Susan, ii., 2. Wil. No palaver; tell it to the marines.
1838. Bayly, Spitalfields Weaver. Hang it! he'll see through all that palaver the way you say it.
1838. Desmond, Stage Struck, 2. No more of your palaver—I'll not be made a Jerry Sneak.
1858. G. Eliot, Janet's Repentance, xxv. I used to think there was a great deal of palaver in her, but you may depend upon it there's no pretence.
1864. Miss Wetherell, Melbourne House, v. Come . . . don't palaver.
1866. Howell's, Venetian Life, xxii. There hang their mighty works for ever, high above the reach of any palaverer.
1883. Payn, Canon's Ward. xv. You have deceived him long enough with palaver, now you'll have to undeceive him with palaver.
1884. Smart, Post to Finish, 193. Have a palaver with your father.
1888. Runciman, Chequers, 107. I liked to hear Jowett palaver.
