1887. Henley, Villon's Good-Night, 2. Likewise you molls that flash your bubs For Swells to spot and stand you Sam.
1890. Lic. Vict. Gaz., 8 Feb. I'll stand Sam for a week at Brighton for both of us.
1893. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 36. If sometimes P. J. do stand Sam, why I ain't one to give myself hairs.
Sambo, subs. (old).—A negro:
generic: c.1558 (Arber, Garner,
v. 95) a tribe of Africans is called
Samboses.
1862. Punch, Aug., Jon. Appeal. Now, Sambo, darn it . . . You know how we in airnest air, From slavery to ease you.
Sammy (or Sammy-Soft), subs.
phr. (common).—A fool: see
Buffle. Also as adj. = foolish
(Grose).
1837. Peake, Quarter to Nine, 2. What a Sammy, give me a shilling more than I axed him!
1843. Moncrieff, Scamps of London, ii. 1. I'm a ruined homo, a muff, a flat, a Sam, a regular ass.
Sample, verb. (common).—1. To
drink: see Lush. Hence
sample-room—a drinking bar.
1847. Porter, Quarter Race, 118. Old T. never samples too much when on business.
18[?]. H. Paul, World Upside Down [Bartlett]. John opened a sample-room, and served out beer and gin.
2. (venery).—To fumble, or occupy a woman for the first time.
Sample-count, subs. (commercial).—A
traveller; an ambassador
of commerce (q.v.).
1894. Egerton, Keynotes, 72. An ubiquitous sample-count from Berlin is measuring his wits with a . . . merchant.
Sample of sin, subs. phr. (old).—A
harlot: see Tart.
1749. Smollett, Gil Blas [Routledge], 105. That delicate sample of sin, who depends on her wantonness for her attractions.
Sampler, subs. (venery).—The
female pudendum: see Monosyllable.
Samson (or Sampson), subs.
(common).—1. A drink made of
brandy, cider, sugar, and a little
water (Halliwell).
2. (Durham School).—A baked jam pudding.
Samson and Abel, subs. phr.
(Oxford University).—A group of
wrestlers in the quadrangle of
Brasenose. [Some said it represented
Samson killing a Philistine;
others Cain killing Abel:
the matter was compromised.]
Samson's-posts, subs. phr. (common).—A
mousetrap so constructed
that the capture is crushed
to death.
Sand, subs. (old).—1. Moist sugar
(Grose, Vaux).
2. (American).—See quots.
1847. Robb, Squatter Life, 73. He set his brain to work conning a most powerful speech, one that would knock the sand from under Hoss.
1884. Clemens, Huck. Finn, viii. When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw; but I says, this ain't no time to be fooling around.
1892. J. L. Hill, Treason-Felony, 22. You're a long-winded old fraud, Mac, with a bonnet full of bees, and a head full of maggots, but you've got the sand.
1896. Lillard, Poker Stories, 19. Sand enough and money enough to sit out the game.
To eat sand, verb. phr. (old).—See quot.
1743. Memoirs of M. du Gue-Trouin (2nd ed.), 95. Now it is very common for the man at the helm to shorten his watch by turning the glass before it is quite run out, which is called eating of sand . . . as we had not seen the sun for nine days
