1902. Free Lance, 19 July, 364, 1. Unsightly blocks of sky-scraping buildings; vulgar self-advertisement, loudness, and beef Trusts, bluff and billionaires.
5. (old nautical).—A cocked hat.
6. (venery).—The penis: see Prick and cf. Heaven = female pudendum.
Skypper. See Skipper, subs.,
sense 1.
Skyte, subs. (Shrewsbury).—See
quot.: cf. Scots' skyte = fool.
1881. Pascoe, Every-Day Life, &c. Day boys . . . live or lodge in the town; and the designation of skytes was formerly applied to them.
Verb. (old).—1. Skite (q.v.); and (2) Squitter (q.v.).
On the skyte, phr. (Scots').—Drunk: see Screwed.
1872. Paston Letters, i. 85. Robert Weryngton to Thomas Daniel, May, 1449. And there I came about the Admirale, and bade them stryke in the Kyngys name of England, and they bade me skyte in the Kyngs name of England.
Skyugle, verb. (American).—See
quots.
1873. Tribune, 27 Jan. Not knowing exactly what it is to skyugle a message, we cannot say whether our reporter was guilty of that offence or not; but we have no hesitation in admitting that he procured a copy of the message in advance, and that our reporters do such things almost every day.
1880. Collins, Thoughts in my Garden, I. 49. The scoundrels skyugled one excellent old gentleman's choice plate.
1864. Army and Navy Journal (American), 11 July. A corps staff officer informed me that he had been out on a general scyugle; that he had scyugled along the front, when the rebels scyugled a bullet through his clothes; that he should scyugle his servant; who, by the way, had scyugled three fat chickens; that after he had scyugled his dinner, he proposed to scyugle a nap.
Sky-wannocking, subs. phr.
(common).—A drunken frolic.
Slab, subs. (old).—1. A milestone
(Bee).
2. (provincial).—A bricklayer's boy (Halliwell).
3. (common).—A thick slice of bread and butter: cf. Doorstep.
4. (Durham School).—In pl. = a flat cake.
To slab off, verb. phr. (American).—To reject [Bartlett].
1835. Crockett, Tour Down East, 212. You must take notice that I am slabb'd off from the election, and am nothing but a voter.
Slabbering-bit, subs. phr. (old).—A
neck-band: clerical or legal
(Grose).
Slabberdegullion. See Slubberdegullion.
Slab-sided, adj. (colloquial).—Tall;
lank; 'up and down' in
figure: also slap-sided.
1825. Neal, Brother Jonathan, ii. Great, long, slab-sided gawkeys from the country.
1856. Dow, Sermons, ii. 200. I like to see a small waist . . . and females with hour-glass shapes suit my fancy better than your Dutch-churn, soap-barrel, slab-sided sort of figures.
1856. Leland, New Sloper Sketches [Knickerbocker Mag., Mar.]. The real slab-sided whittler is indigenous to Varmount and New Hampshire.
1859. Kingsley, Geoffrey Hamlyn, 353. One of those long-legged, slab-sided, lean, sunburned, cabbage-tree hatted lads.
d. 1891. Lowell, Fitz-Adam's Story. You didn't chance to run ag'inst my son, A long slab-sided youngster with a gun?
Slack, subs. (common).—In pl. =
overall trousers.
