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French Synonyms.—Une bagnole (pop.: from bagne = hulks); un bazar (military: also, a brothel); un bocal (pop.: also = stomach); une baraque (common: in disparagement); une baite (thieves'); une case (thieves'); une carrée (thieves'); une cambriole (thieves'); une cambuse (popular); une condition (thieves'); un creux (thieves'); une piole or piolle (thieves').
German Synonym.—Bes, Beth, or Bajis.
Italian Synonyms.—Bacchia; clocchia or cloccia (also = a bell); coschetto delle Fantasime.
Spanish Synonyms.—Caverna ('a cavern'; cf., English den); aduana (also = a brothel, and thieves' resort); nido ('a nest'; nido de ladrones, a 'cross-drum'; a thieves' resort); percha ('a perch').
1838. J. C. Neal, Charcoal Sketches, II., 119. Look here, Ned, I reckon it's about time we should go to our diggings; I am dead beat.
1871. De Vere, Americanisms, p. 171. The miner in California and Nevada has been known, in times of a rush, to speak of a place where he could stand leaning against a stout post, as his diggings for the night.
1883. Referee, 1 July, p. 3, col. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft are changing their diggings, and clearing out of Cavendish-square.
1884. W. C. Russell, Jack's Courtship, ch. viii. Oh, he lives round the corner. You may see his diggings from your daughter's bedroom window, sir.
1888. C. J. Dunphie, The Chameleon, p. 86. 'Diggings' I call my dwelling, according to the prevalent slang.
DIGGUMS, subs. (provincial).—1. A
gardener.
2. (gamesters').—The suit of spades; also diggers (q.v.).
Dilberries, subs. (common).—Fæcal
and seminal deposits in
the hair of the anus and the
female pudendum; clinkers.
Dilberry-bush, subs. (common).—The
hair about the female
pudendum or the anus.—See Dilberries.
Dildo, subs. (old).—An instrument
(of wax, horn, leather, india-rubber,
gutta-percha, etc., and
other soft material), shaped
like, and used by women as a
substitute for, the penis. Now
called a broom-handle or
broomstick, the pudendum in
this connection = broom (q.v.).
[Bailey: from It., diletto, a
woman's delight or from DALLY
= to toy.] In Lombardy, passo
tempo.
c. 1672. Butler, Dildoides (Occasioned by Burning a hogshead of dildoes at Stocks Market).
1886. Burton, The Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. x, p. 239. Of the penis succedaneus, that imitation of the Arbor-*vitæ, or Sotor-Kosmou, which the Latins called phallus and fascinum, the French godemiché, and the Italians passatempo and diletto (whence our dildo), every kind abounds, varying from a stuffed 'French Letter' to a cone of ribbed horn, which looks like an instrument of torture.
Verb (old).—To wanton with a woman. Cf., subs., sense. For synonyms, see FIRKYTOODLE.
DILLY, subs. (common).—A night
cart; formerly a coach. [From
Fr., diligence.]
17(?). The Anti-Jacobin. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne glides, The Derby Dilly having four inside.
1833. Marryat, Peter Simple, ch. ix. One which they called a dilly.
Dilly-bag, subs. (Australian).—A
wallet; or scran-bag.
1880. A. C. Grant. Their own DILLY-BAGS have nothing of value or interest in them.
