Slime, verb. (Durham School).—1. To 'cut' games. Also (2) to lounge, to loaf: e.g., 'slimeing down town.'
3. (Felsted).—To sneak along; to do a slime = to take a crafty advantage.
4. (Harrow).—To go round quietly.
1898. Warner, Harrow School, 282. His house-beak slimed and twug him.
5. (Harrow).—To make 'drops' at rackets.
Sling, verb. (common).—A generic
verb of action. Thus 1 (thieves')
= to throw away or pass to a
confederate; and 2 (general) to
do easily; to sling a pot = to
drink; to sling the booze =
to stand treat; to sling a bob
(a tanner—anything) = to give;
to sling one's hook (bunk, or
daniel) = to decamp; to sling
a daddle = to shake hands;
to sling a cat = to vomit; to
sling a tinkler = to ring the
bell; to sling one's juice (or
jelly) = to masturbate; to sling
a poem, article, or book = to
write; to sling a hat = to wave
one in applause; to sling the
smash = to smuggle tobacco to
prisoners; to sling about = to
loaf; to sling ink (or a pen)
= to write: hence inkslinger
= a clerk or author; to sling a
foot = to dance; to sling one
in the eye = to blacken it; to
kill a crow with an empty
sling (Ray) = to gain without
effort; to sling off (or patter
or jaw) = to talk, to abuse, to
insinuate: cf. slang; to sling
a snot = to blow one's nose with
the fingers: also to sling; to
sling (or jerk) a part = to
undertake a rôle: to sling a
nasty part = to play so well
that another would find it difficult
to rival it; to sling round
ON the loose = to act recklessly;
sling yourself (let
her sling!) = 'Bestir yourself.'
1835. Crockett, Tour down East, 37. We swung round the wharf; and when the captain told the people who I was, they slung their hats and gave three cheers.
1864. Browne ('Artemus Ward'), Works (1870), 277. The chaps that write for the Atlantic, Betsy, understand their bisness. They can sling ink, they can. Ibid., 305. You ask me, sir, to sling some ink for your paper.
1873. Greenwood, In Strange Company. He . . . swore . . . that if we did not that instant sling our Daniels . . . he would shy at us every heavenly article of crockery his apartment contained.
1884. Clemens, Huckleberry Finn. Teach singing . . . sling a lecture sometimes.
1899. Whiteing, John St., vi. Blow me if I shan't be sold up, too, if I don't soon sling my 'ook. Ibid., xxi. If ever I ketch yer messin' abaht wi' any o' them, I'll sling him one in the eye.
Slinger, subs. (common).—A piece
of bread floating in tea.
Slinging, adj. (colloquial).—Covering;
indefatigable; effortless.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, 1. 7. Two well-known runners . . . started off at a long slinging trot across the fields.
Slink, subs. (common).—1. A sneak; (2) a greedy starveling (Halliwell); and (3) a cheat. Hence as adj. (or slinky) = (1) sneaky, mean; and 2 (America) = thin, lank (Bartlett).
1816. Scott, Antiquary, xv. He has na' settled his account wi' my gudeman the deacon for this twalmonth; he's but slink, I doubt.
18[?]. Chronicles of Pineville, 139 [Bartlett]. I despise a slink.
