Adj. (common).—Drunk: see Screwed.
All snug, phr. (Grose).—All's quiet.
See Bug.
Snuggery, subs. (common).—A
comfortable privacy: as a
woman's boudoir, a man's smoking
den, a bar-parlour.
1837. Dickens, Pickwick, xlv. 'Vere are they?' said Sam . . . 'In the snuggery,' rejoined Mr. Weller.
1872. Eliot, Middlemarch, xvii. Knowing . . . Mr. Farebrother was a bachelor he had thought of being ushered into a snuggery, where the chief furniture would probably be books.
1886. Field, 13 Feb. We in Meath had a pleasant time in Miss Murphy's snuggery.
1898. Pink'Un and Pelican. Give me the old-fashioned waiter . . . who becomes a part and parcel of the house. Simpson's, and that older snuggery, the "Cheshire Cheese," have had many such.
Snyder (or Snider), subs. (old).—A
tailor: see Trades.
c.1600. Weakest to Wall, i. 3. Beest thou a snyder? snip, snap, mette sheers.
So, adv. (colloquial).—1. Drunk:
see Screwed. Also so-so.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas [Routledge], 50. We drank hard, and returned to our employers in a pretty pickle, that is to say so-so in the upper story.
2. (conventional: women's).—Pregnant; lumpy (q.v.).
3. (Ibid.).—In courses, under repair (q.v.),
Intj. (colloquial).—A questioning reply to a positive statement: e.g., 'The King returns to town to-day' 'So?'
So-and-so, subs. (colloquial).—1. Somebody or something indefinite; and (2) in place of a thing forgotten, or which it is not desired to mention: e.g., Mr. So-and-so.
So long, intj. (common).—Good bye!
1902. Lynch, High Stakes, xxxii. I'm off for change of air . . . Sow long. I'll see ye later.
So-so, adj. and adv. (colloquial).—Ordinary; mediocre; nothing to speak of.
1530. Palsgrave, Lang. Francoyse, 445. Tellement quellement, je me porte, so so.
c.1537. A Pore Helpe [Hazlitt, Early Pop. Poet., iii. 263], 300. A noble teacher, And so-so a preacher.
1595. Shakspeare, Two Gent., i. 2. 'What thinkest thou of the rich Mercatio?' 'Well of his wealth; but of himself, so-so.' Ibid. (1600), As You Like It, v. i. 29. So So is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it it is not; it is but so-so.
d.1703. Pepys, Diary. She is a mighty proper maid, and pretty comely, but so-so; but hath a most pleasing tone of voice, and speaks handsomely.
d.1704. Brown, Works, 1. 173-4. Their outsides wondrous fine, their Pockets lined within but so-so.
c.1784. Dr. S. Parr [N. and Q., 7 S., x. 274]. Dr. Taylor read the service but so-so.
1797. Lamb, Correspondence, 'Coleridge,' xix. The remainder is only so-so.
1810. Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso. Only so-so. O, monstrous doleful thing!
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 73. That illustrious lady, who, after leading but a so-so life, had died in the odour of sanctity.
1857. F. Locker, Reply to a Letter. I trembled once beneath her spell Whose spelling was extremely so-so.
1888. Boldrewood, Squatter's Dream, vi. He had . . . agreed . . . to sell this year's clip in the colony, as the washing and getting up were only so-so, and wool was high.
Soak, subs. (common).—1. A
drinking bout; (2) a hard drinker:
also soaker. As verb. = to
