Sip, subs. and verb. (back slang).—piss (q.v.).
SIPPER, subs. (common).—Gravy.
Si quis, subs. phr. (old).—1. A public notice of ordination. [These commenced "Si quis," "If any"]. Whence (2) a candidate for holy orders; and (3) any public announcement. As verb. = to make hue and cry.
1599. Hall, Satires, II. v. Saws't thou ever siquis patch'd on Paul's Church door, To seek some vacant vicarage before.
1607. Marston, What You Will, iii. My end is to paste up a si quis.
1609. Dekker, Gulls Horne-Booke, chap. iv. The first time that you venture into Powles, passe through the body of the Church like a Porter, yet presume not to fetch so much as one whole turne in the middle Ile, no nor to cast an eye to si quis doore (pasted and plaistered up with Seruing-mens supplications) before you haue paid tribute to the top of Powles steeple with a single penny.
1704. Gentleman Instructed, 312. He may . . . si quis me in the next Gazette.
Sir (Sir John or Mass-John), subs. (old).—A parson; spec. (B. E.) 'a country Parson or Vicar': see Sky-pilot (Grose). See John.
1380. Wicliffe, Works [E. E. T. S.], 192. [Oliphant, New English, i. 147. The priest Sir John, becomes Sir Jacke . . . this change is unusual.]
1426. Sir Jon Audlay [Percy Soc.: the title of a description of a priest].
c. 14[?]. Tale of the Basyn [Hazlitt, Early Pop. Poet., iii. 47]. Hit is a preest, men callis Sir John. Ibid. 49. Sir John con wake, And nedis water he must make.
d. 1555. Latimer, Works [Century]. They hire a Sir John which hath better skill in playing at tables . . . than in God's word.
1560. Becon, Works [Parker Soc.] 270. Hold up, Sir John, heave it [the Host] a little higher.
1591. Spenser, Mother Hubb. Tale, v. 390. But this good sir did follow the plaine word.
1596. Lambard, Peramb., 37. A poore Chapell, served with a single Sir John, and destitute both of font and churchyard.
1602. Shakspeare, Twelfth Night, iv. 2. Make him believe you are Sir Thopas, the curate. Do it quickly.
c. 1609. Fletcher, M. Thomas, v. 2. Close by the nunnery, there you'll find a night-priest, Little Sir Hugh, and he can say his matrimony, Over without book.
1633. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 1. Though Sir Hugh of Pancras, Be hither come to Totten.
1648. Herrick, Hesperides, 'The Tythe.' If children you have ten, Sir John won't for his tenth part ask you one.
1817. Drake, Shakspeare, &c, i. 88. The language of our Universities . . . confers the designation of Dominus on those who have taken their first degree of Bachelor of Arts; the word Dominus was naturally translated Sir, and, as almost every clergyman had taken his first degree, it became customary to apply the term to the lower class of the hierarchy.
Sir Garnet, subs. phr. (street's).—All right, or as it should be. [An echo of the days when Sir Garnet (now Viscount) Wolseley was in the forefront of military matters.]
1886-96. Marshall, Une Affaire d'Honneur ['Pomes,' 110], And the start was all Sir Garnet, Jenny went for Emma's Barnet.
Sir Harry, subs. phr. (old).—A jakes: see Mrs. Jones. To visit (or go to) Sir Harry = to evacuate the bowels.
Sir Hugh's Bones. See Bones.
Sir Jack Sauce. See Jack Sauce and Sauce.
Sir John Barleycorn. See Barleycorn.
