1884. Bellamy, Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, 99. There was a modest shingle bearing the name 'Dr. Gustav Heidenhoff' fastened up on the side of the house.
Verb. (common). To chastise.
To have a shingle short, verb. phr. (Australian).—To be crazy; to have a tile loose.
Shingle-tramper, subs. phr.
(nautical).—A coastguardsman.
Shining-light, subs. phr. (common).—An
exemplar.
d.1796. Burns, Holy Willy's Prayer. 2. A burnin' and a shinin' light To a' this place.
1892. Sala's Jour., 2 July, 220. They are simply following the example of other shining lights in the profession.
Shinkin-ap-Morgan, subs. phr. (old)—A Welshman.
c.1660. Broadside Ballad, 'A Beggar I'll Be' [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 29]. With Shinkin-ap-Morgan, with Blue-cap, or Teague, We into no Covenant enter, nor League.
Shinner, subs. (old). see quots.
1585. Nomenclator, 167. An hose, a nether stocke, a shinner.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes. Calcette, hosen, or neather stockings, or shinners.
See Shin, verb.
Shinny (or Shiny), adj. (American).—Drunk:
see Screwed.
Shinplaster, subs. (American).—See
quot. 1890.
1838. Neal, Charcoal Sketches, ii. 23. If you have no brass and no tin, give us a shinplaster then—them's my terms.
1845. New York Tribune, 3 Dec. The people may whistle for protection, and put up with what shinplaster rags they can get.
1848. Durivage, Stray Subjects, 135. The cards were dealt, a brace of hands were played, and I won his 'Red Dog' shinplaster.
1848. Lowell, Biglow Papers . . . If greenbacks ain't not just the cheese, I guess there's evils that's extremer; For instance,—shinplaster idees, Like them put out by Gov'nor Seymour.
1852. L'Allegro: As Good as a Comedy, 60. A greasy citizen, holding out a couple of shinplasters of single dollar denomination.
1856. Dow, Sermons, i. 309. Hope's brightest visions absquatulate with their golden promises before the least cloud of disappointment, and leave not a shinplaster behind.
1862. Punch, 19 July, Yankee Stories. King Dollar 'ginst us he may turn, But we have King Shinplaster.
c.1866. The Disseminator. A grocer of New York, who had set up an opposition to the whole batch of suspended banks, found his shin-plasters returned-to him in such quantities, that, on counting over his "money," he found that he had redeemed about 100 dols. more than he had ever issued.
1890. Cent. Dict. s.v. Shinplaster . . . A small paper note used as money; a printed promise to pay a small sum issued as money without legal security. The name came into early use in the United States for notes issued on private responsibility, in denominations of from three to fifty cents, as substitutes for the small coins withdrawn from circulation during a suspension of specie payments; people were therefore obliged to accept them, although very few of them were ever redeemed. Such notes abounded during the financial panic beginning with 1837, and during the early part of the Civil War of 1861-5. After the latter period they were replaced by the fractional notes issued by the Government and properly secured, to which the name was transferred.
Shin-rapper, subs. phr.
(knackers').—1. A disabling
blow on the splint bone; also (2)
one who delivers such a blow.
1885. D. Tel., 30 Sep. Every great stable in England had the fear of the poisoner, the shin-rapper, and the nobbler constantly in view.
Shinscraper, subs. (thieves').—The
treadmill: see Everlasting-staircase.
