Shiver, subs. (colloquial).—In pl. = the ague; chills.
See Beat and Timbers.
Shivering Jemmy (or James),
subs. phr. (streets').—See quot.
1887. Standard, 20 June, 5, 2. The half-hearted beggars . . . are the 'Shallow Coves' and Shivering Jemmies of London slang.
1900. Flynt, Tramps, 240. One day he is a 'shallow cove' or a Shivering-Jimmy.
Shivery-shaky, adv. phr. (common).—Trembling;
shivery-shakes
= chills.
1864. Derby-day, 54. He's all shivery-shaky, as if he'd got the staggers, or the cold shivers.
Sho, intj. (American).—Pshaw!
1851. Seaworthy, Bertie, 36. 'True, as my name's James Ragsdale.' 'Sho!'
Shoard. To take a shoard,
verb. phr. (provincial).—To get
tipsy: see Screwed.
Shoat (or Shote), subs. (American).—See
quots.
18[?]. Hill, Stories [Bartlett]. Seth Slope was what we call Down East a poor shote, his principal businesss being to pick up chips, feed the hogs, &c.
1856. Dow, Sermons [Bartlett]. If you . . . make a proper use of your time, happiness, peace, and contentment are yours; if not, you will always be miserable shoats.
Shock, subs. (B. E., c.1696).—'A
Brunt. To stand the Shock, to
bear the brunt.' Shocking,
what is offensive, grating, grievous,
and espec. indecent.
Shocker, subs. (common).—Anything
to surprise or startle. See
Shilling Shocker.
1898. Gould, Golden Ruin, vii. 'This is a surprise . . . but I am heartily glad to see you.'. . . 'Thought I should give you a shocker.'
Shocking. See Hat.
Shod. See Shoe.
Shoddy, subs. (colloquial).—1.
Old material—cloth, rags, &c.—ground
up or shredded, and re*-woven
with a new warp. Hence
(2) anything of poor quality or
pretentious reputation: spec. (in
derision) a workman in a woollen
factory. Also as adj. = sham.
Also derivatives such as
shoddyite, shoddyise, &c.
1851-61. Mayhew, London Lab., ii. 34. The fabric thus snatched, as it were, from the ruins of cloth, is known as shoddy.
1864. Spectator, 355. The mixture of good wool and rotten shoddy we call broad-cloth.
1869. Froude, Address at St. Andrews, 12 Mar. We have false weights, false measures, cheating and shoddy everywhere.
1871. Lowell, Study Windows, 56. A horrible consciousness of shoddy running through politics, manners, art, literature, nay, religion itself.
1872. Ev. Standard, 11 Dec. 'Ag. Lab. Movement.' There were things that Parliament could do. It could abolish the truck system, whether in shoddy or in cider, and could provide that money should be paid in the coin of the realm.
1880. Ouida, Moths, vii. In New York she and hers were deemed shoddy—the very shoddiest of shoddy—and were looked coldly on, and were left unvisited.
1881. D. M. Wallace, Russia, 176. The Russian merchant's ostention is . . . entirely different from English snobbery and American shoddyism. . . . He never affects to be other than he really is.
1883. Belfast Weekly Northern Whig, 3 Feb. 1, 9. Cloaks lined with ostrich feathers are now in style, but the worst of this fashion is that if a woman leaves it unbuttoned, she is accounted a shoddyite, more anxious for vulgar display than comfort, while if she keeps it buttoned it might just as well be lined with red flannel for no one can see it.
1889. Academy, 11 May, 325. Philosophic Shoddy.
Shoe, subs. (old local).—A room
in Southgate Debtors' Prison.
