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drink water); à Chaillot = 'go to Bath and get your head shaved'); tu t'en ferais crèver (pop.: = don't you wish you may get it); colle-toi ça dans l'cornet (pop.: = put that in your pipe and smoke it!) je la connais (pop.: = do you see any green?'); j'entrave pas dans tes vannes (thieves': = you don't take me in); de la bourrache! (popular: = no go); un sale truc pour la fanfare (popular: an expression of disgust); de quoi (popular: what next? also = wealth, money, etc.); allez donc raconter cela à dache (thieves': = tell that to the marines!); des dattes! (pop.: = take a carrot!); et ta sœur (popular: indicative of refusal, contempt, and insult); faut pas m'la faire (popular: = Walker!); et le pouce (pop.: = and the rest!)
1841. Punch, vol. I., p. 6, col. 2. Where are they that should protect thee In this darkling hour of doubt? Love could never thus neglect thee! Does your mother know you're out?
1864. Sun, 28 Dec. 'Review of Hotten's Slang Dictionary.' Ridiculous street cries, such as does your mother know you're out? or, Has your Aunt sold her mangle? or, You don't lodge here, Mr. Fergusson—whatever those sapient remarks may mean.
Dog, subs. (colloquial).—1. A man;
sometimes used contemptuously
(Cf., Cat = a woman), but more
frequently in half-serious chiding;
e.g., a sad dog, gay dog, old dog,
etc. For synonyms, see Cove.
Sometimes adjectively = male;
see quot., 1856. An old dog at
it = expert, or accustomed to.
1596. Nashe, Have with you, Epis. Ded. par. 5. O, he hath been olde dogge at that drunken, staggering kinde of verse.
1697. Vanbrugh, Æsop, part II., Sc. iii. Why, I'm a strong young dog, you old gent, you.
1703. Mrs. Centlivre, Stolen Heiress, I., wks, (1872), i., 336. She is in love, forsooth, with a young beggarly dog not worth a groat.
1736. Fielding, Don Quixote, II. iv. A comical dog, I fancy; go, give my service to him.
b. 1764, d. 1817. J. G. Holman, Abroad and at Home, I., 3. And my praise to withhold none so currish, With a girl so divine! Such dinners! such wine! What a d—d clever dog was Jack Flourish!
1810. Crabbe, The Borough, Letter 6, Law. For he'd a way that many judg'd polite, A cunning dog—he'd fawn before he'd bite.
1836. C. Dickens, Pickwick Papers, p. 369 (ed. 1857). Curse me, they're friends of mine from this minute and friends of Mivins, too. Infernal pleasant, gentlemenly, dog Mivins, isn't he? said Smangle, with great feeling.
1856. Whyte Melville, Kate Coventry, ch. vii. Then comes Ascot, for which meeting they leave the metropolis, and enjoy some quiet retreat in the neighbourhood of Windsor, taking with them many potables, and what they call a dog cook.
2. (thieves').—A burglar's iron. For synonyms, see Jemmy.
1888. American Humorist, 31 Mar. The safe was rifled, and every appearance of robbery was manifest. In this case the murderer was discovered by means of a dog, which was described in the newspapers as having certain peculiar scratches on it.
Verb (venery).—To copulate on all fours.
To go, or throw to the dogs.—See Go and Demnition Bow-wows.
Hair of the dog that bit you.—See Hair.
To blush like a blue dog.—See Blush.
Dogberry, subs. (common).—A
stupid constable, or magistrate.
[From Much Ado about Nothing.]
For synonyms, see Beak and
Copper.
