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une mandole (popular); une gnole (popular: from torgnole); un coup de gilquin (popular); un cataplasme de Venise (popular); un gnon (popular); une dariole (pop.: also, a cream-cake); une beugne (popular); une dandine (popular: 'a twister'); une baffre (popular); des castagnettes (military: punches); une châtaigne (popular); une couleur (popular); une bouffe (popular: bouffée = gust or blast); un cabochon (popular); un estaffion (popular); une estaphe (popular); une accolade; une balle de coton (thieves').—See also Tan, verb.
German Synonym. Azkes malaikes (Viennese thieves': = a blow with the fist on the throat. The derivation may be: azke from Heb. osak, to quarrel + malaikes from Heb. melocho, work).
Spanish Synonyms.—Duros (whip-strokes; also = harsh, merciless); tapaboca (a 'corker': also any action or observation which cuts one short); pasagonzalo (a quick hit); capon (generally colloquial); chamorrada (a butt with the head); mojada (a stab); zumbido or zumbo (literally, a humming or buzzing); tantarantin (a thwack; also = beat of a drum); tarja (also = a target).
Italian Synonym. Ramenghi d'alta foia (blows with a stick).
2. (American).—A diligent student. [By implication from the verb (q.v.); also study; e.g., To have a dig at Cæsar or Livy.
Verb (American)—To work hard; especially to study.
1876. Miss Alcott, Little Wives, ch. ix. He . . . turned studious, and gave out that he was going to dig, intending to graduate in a blaze of glory.
Dig a day under the skin, verb. phr. (common).—To make a shave serve for two days.
TO DIG UP THE HATCHET.—See Bury.
Digester.—See Patent Digester.
Digged.—See Jigged.
Diggers, subs. (common).—1.
Spurs; 'persuaders.'
1789. Geo. Parker, Life's Painter, p. 173, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
2. (cards').—The spades suit; also DIGGUMS. BIG DIGGER = ace of spades.
3. (vulgar).—The finger nails.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
1881. New York Slang Dict. 'On the Trail.' 'If you do,' returned Bill, 'I will fix my diggers in your dial-plate and turn it up with red.
Diggers'-Delight, subs. (New
Zealand).—A wide-brimmed felt
hat. For synonyms, see Golgotha.
Diggings, subs. (common).—A
place of residence or employment.
[First used at the Western
lead mines in the U.S.A.
to denote whence ore was dug.]
English Synonyms.—Birk; box; case; crib; chat; den; dry-lodgings; drum; place; pig-sty; pew; cabin; castle; chaffing-crib; caboose; sky-parlour; shop; ken; dossing-ken; hole; rookery; hutch; hang-out.
