Pantables. To stand upon one's pantables, verb. phr. (old colloquial).—To stand upon dignity; to assert one's position. [Pantables = pantoufle = slipper].
1580. Saker, Narbonus, 11. 99. Hee standeth upon his pantables, and regardeth greatly his reputation.
1647. Beaumont and Fletcher, Faithful Friend, iii. 2. Then comes a page: the saucy jacket-wearer Stood upon's pantables with me, and would in: But, I think I took him down ere I had done with him.
1734. Cotton, Works, 85. Is now, forsooth, so proud, what else! And stands so on her pantables.
Pantagruelian, subs. (literary).—An
artist in life. [From Pantagruel,
the title character of
Rabelais.]
PANTER, subs. (Old Cant).—1. The
hart. [Because said (in Psalms)
to pant after the fresh water
brooks].—B. E. (c.1696); Grose
(1785).
2. (common).—The heart. Also, in pl. = the paps. Fr. le Saint-ciboire; le battant (= the beater); la fressure (= the pluck or fry); le palpitant. It. la salsa (= sauce).
c.1725. Old Song [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 44]. Didst thou know, my dear doxy, but half of the smart Which has seized on my panter, since thou didst depart.
Pants, subs. (vulgar).—Short for
'pantaloons.' Also panteys,
and (colloquial) pantalettes
[= a school-girl's breeches].
1870. White, Words and their Uses, 211. Gent and pants—Let these words go together like the things they signify. The one always wears the other.
1847. Porter, Big Bear, 104. If I hadn't a had on pantalets I reckon somebody would of knowd whether I gartered above my knees or not.
1848. Burton, Waggeries, 95. I've a colt's revolver in each pantey's pocket.
1851. Wendell Holmes, Poems, 217. The thing named pants in certain documents, A word not made for gentlemen, but gents.
1852. Wetherell, Queenie. Miss Letitia Ann Thornton, a tall grown girl in pantalettes.
1853. Whyte Melville, Digby Grand, xx. Wonderfully-fitting continuations, pants he calls them.
1878. Yates [World, 16 Jan.]. Sterry, the pet of pantalettes, the laureate of frills.
1883. Clemens, Life on Mississippi, xxxviii. The young ladies, as children, in slippers and scalloped pantelettes.
Pantile subs. (common).—1.- A
hat.
2. (schoolboys').—A flat cake covered with jam.
3. (nautical).—A biscuit.
Adj. (old colloquial).—Dissenting. [See Pantiler.]
1715. Centlivre, Gotham Election, sc. ii. Mr. Tickup's a good churchman, mark that! He is none of your hellish pantile crew.
Pantiler, subs. (common).—A
Dissenter—minister or layman:
see Devil-dodger. Hence Pantile,
adj. (q.v.), and Pantile-shop
(see quot. 1785).
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Pantile-shop. A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting house, frequently covered with pantiles: called also a Cock-pit.
1856. Mayhew, World of London, 249. The officers used to designate the extraordinary religious convicts as pantilers.
1863. Knight, Pass. of a Working Life (1873), i. 217. This vulgar term of opprobrium for sectaries in the palmy days of 'Church and King' was Pantilers.
Pantler, subs. (literary: perhaps
obsolete).—A butler; a pantry-man.—B.
E. (c.1696); Grose
(1785).
