comme un âne (un hanneton, une grive, un Polonais, or trente milles hommes), slasse (or slaze), teinté, dans la terrine, en train, dans les vignes (or la vigne) du Seigneur, and vent dessus-dessous (or dedans); faire cracher ses soupapes; se farder; fêter la Saint-Lundi; se flanquer un coup d'arrosoir (une cuite, une Culotte, or une fameuse pétée); se foncer; se grimer; se grisotter; mettre son nez dans le bleu; se mettre en dedans; se mouiller; se paffer; se payer; se pincer (or se pincer un coup de sirop or le tasseau); se piquer le nez (le tasseau, or le tube); se pocharder; se poisser; se poivrotter; se pommader; prendre son allumette de campagne (or une barbe); ramponner; se salir le nez; schniquer; se schlosser; se sculpter une guende de bois; slasser; se tinter; ne pas trouver son niveau; voir en dedans.
1837. Barham, Ing. Leg., 'Witches' Frolic. Like a four-bottle man in a company screw'd, Not firm on his legs, but by no means subdued.
1841. Punch, i. 278. We had a great night in London before I started, only I got rascally screwed: not exactly sewed up, you know, but hit under the wing, so that I could not well fly.
1843. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxv. She was only a little screwed.
1850. Smedley, Frank Fairlegh, 133. If any of our party were in the condition expressed by the mysterious word screwed, it certainly was Lawless himself.
185. Thackeray, Newcomes, xlvii. Blest if I didn't nearly drive her into a wegetable cart. I was so uncommon scruey!
1871. All Year Round, 18 Feb., 288. Awfully screwed. Been keeping it up with a fast lot at Gypsum.
1895. Reynolds, 18 Aug., 4, 7. A witness suggested that the prisoners were too drunk to know what they were doing.
Mr. Gray: No. We admit being a little bit screwed, but we were not so bad as all that.
Scribbler's-luck, subs. phr.
(common).—See quot.
1898. Pelican, 3 Dec., 11, 2. His purse is pretty full; mine, worse luck, is almost empty. Scribbler's luck, an empty purse and a full hand.
Scribe. See One-eyed Scribe.
Scrimshanker, subs. (military).—A
loafer: cf. Bloodsucker;
whence Scrimshank = to shirk
duty.
Scrimshaw (or Scrimshander),
subs. (nautical).—See quots. Also
scrimshon and scrimshorn.
18[?]. Fisheries of U.S., v. ii. 231-2. Scrimshawing . . . is the art, if art it be, of manufacturing useful and ornamental articles at sea. . . . We find handsome writing desks, toilet boxes, and work-boxes made of foreign woods, inlaid with hundreds of other pieces of precious woods of various shapes and shades.
1883. C. Russell, Sailors' Language, s.v. Scrimshandy. An Americanism signifying the objects in ivory or bone carved by whalemen during their long voyages.
Scrip, subs. (old).—See quot. and
Blot the scrip (Grose).
c. 1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Scrip, c. a shred or scrap of paper. 'As the Cully did freely blot the scrip, and sipt me 40 Hogs,' c. one enter'd into Bond with me for 40 Shillings.
SCROBY. TO BE TIPPED THE
SCROBY (or CLAWS) FOR BREAKFAST,
verb phr. (old).—'To be
whipped before the justices'
(Grose).
Scroof (or Scroofer), subs.
(American).—A parasite: as verb
= TO SPONGE (q.v.).
Scrope, subs. (old).—A farthing:
see Rhino (Hall, Grose).
