1599. Hall, Satires, vi. i. And in high start-ups walk'd the pastur'd plaines, To tend her tasked herd that there remaines.
1605. Drayton, Eclogues, ix. (1753), 1,429. When not a shepherd any thing that could, But greaz'd his startups black as autumn's sloe.
1608. Withal, Dict., 211. In a maner all husbandmen doe weare startups, sunt omnes pene agricolæ soccati.
1611. Cotgrave, Dict., s.v. Guestres, Start-ups; high shooes, or gamashes for countrey folks.
1614. Terence in English. Some of my men comes running to me, and pulls of my startups, others I see hasting to make readie supper and to lay the cloath.
1629. Massinger, Picture, v. 1. Fie upon 't, what a thread 's here! a poor cobler's wife Would make a finer to sew a clown's rent startup.
1821. Scott, Kenilworth, xxiv. A stupid lout . . . in a grey jerkin, with his head bare, his hose about his heels, and huge start-ups upon his feet.
Starvation, subs. (old: now recognised).—See
quots. [Latham's
edition (1866) of Todd's Johnson
was the first English Dictionary
to include this word.]
1775. Dundas, Speech on American Affairs. I shall not wait for the advent of starvation from Edinburgh to settle my judgment.
1781. Walpole, Letters, 'To Rev. W. Mason,' 25 April. Starvation Dundas, whose pious policy suggested that the devil of rebellion could be expelled only by fasting.
1851. Mitford, Correspond. of Walpole [Cunningham, viii. 30. Note]. Starvation was an epithet applied to Mr. Dundas, the word being, for the first time, introduced into our language by him, in a speech in 1775 in an American debate, and thenceforward became a nickname.
1899. Century Dict., s.v. Starvation. The word is noted as one of the first (flirtation being another) to be formed directly from a native English verb with the Latin termination—ation . . . first used or brought into notice by Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville.
Starve 'em, Rob 'em, and Cheat
'em, phr. (old nautical and military).—Stroud,
Rochester, and
Chatham: cf. The London
Smash 'em and Do-for-'em Ry.
= The L.C.D.R.
Stash, verb. (common).—To desist;
to set aside; to stow it:
e.g., to stash prigging = to
turn honest; to stash one's patter
= to hold one's tongue; to
stash the lush = to stop boozing
(q.v.).
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Wanted . . . It becomes the latter [a thief] to keep out of the way . . . until he . . . can find means to stash the business through the medium of Mr. Palmer.
1827. Lytton, Pelham, lxxxii. Stash the lush . . . and toddle off to Ruggins.
1830. Jon Bee, Living Picture of London. What to the heel do you stash at? I'll chive you.
1841. Leman Rede, Sixteen String Jack, i. 6. Stash your patter and come along.
State Nicknames. The colloquial
designation of various States and
peoples of the American Union is
as follows:—Badger State =
Wisconsin; Bay State = Massachusetts;
Bayou State = Mississippi;
Bear State = (1) Arkansas,
(2) California (Century), and
(3) Kentucky (Century); Big
Bend State = Tenessee: people
= Mudheads; Blue Hen State
= Delaware: people = Blue
Hen's Chickens; Blue-Law
State = Connecticut: also infra;
Buck-eye State = Ohio; Bullion
State = Missouri: people =
Pukes; Centennial State =
Colorado: people = Centennials;
Corn-cracker State = Kentucky:
people = Corncrackers;
Cracker State = Georgia:
people = Crackers; Creole
State = Louisiana: also infra;
