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Double-tongued Squib, subs. phr. (common).—A double-barrelled gun. For synonyms, see Squib.
1864. G. W. Reynolds, Pickwick Abroad. A double-tongued squib to keep in awe The chaps that flout at me.
Double-up, verb (pugilistic).—1.
To punish. Also to be collapsed.
Cf., Doubler.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib's Memorial, p. 20. Doubled him up, like a bag of old duds.
1827. Reynolds ('Peter Corcoran') The Fancy, note on p. 89. Randall doubles up an opponent, as a friend lately declared, as easily as though he were picking a flower or pinching a girl's cheek.
1830. S. Warren, Diary of a Late Physician, ch. xii. Accompanied by a tremendous doubling up body-blow, as in an instant brought him senseless to the ground.
1845. Punch, vol. IX., p. 163. Ben's reference to the Premier's friend, Canning, completely doubled him up.
1849. Thackeray, Dr. Birch, p. 6. I reflect as I go up and set him a sum, that he [Champion] could whop me in two minutes, double up Prince and the other assistant and pitch the Doctor out of the window.
1866. London Miscellany, 5 May, p. 202. Doubled you up, I mean, sir. Smashed you.
2. (common).—To pair off, to chum with.
1885. W. Westall, Larry Lohengrin, ch. iii. He . . . promised the steward a handsome tip if nobody were doubled up with him,—i.e., if no other person were put into the same cabin.
Dough, subs. (public schools')—Pudding.
Dough-baked, adj. phr. (colloquial).—Deficient
in intellect.
U. S. A. = Easily moulded:
said of politicians. For synonyms,
see Apartments.
1675. Wycherley, Country Wife, IV., iv. in wks. (1713), 212. These dow-baked, sensless, indocile animals, women.
Doughy, subs. (common).—A
baker.—See Burncrust, and for
synonyms, master of the
rolls.
Douse.—See Dowse.
Dover, subs. (hotel).—A made
dish; hash; rechauffé.
Dovers, subs. (Stock Exchange).—South
Eastern Railway
Ordinary Stock. [From one of
the termini on the line.]
Doves, subs. (University).—Members
of St. Catharine's College,
Cambridge.—See quot.
Obsolete.
1888. C. Whibley, Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit, p. xxix. It is said that the members of St. Catharine's Hall were first of all called 'Puritans,' from the derivation of the name of their patroness from [Greek: kathai/rein]. The 'dove' being the emblem of purity, to change a name from 'Puritans' to doves was but one short step.
Soiled-Doves, subs. (common).—High-class prostitutes. For synonyms, see Barrack-Hack and Tart.
Dove-Tart, subs. (colloquial).—A
pigeon pie. (Doo-tairt is excellent
Scots for the same thing.)
Cf., Snake Tart = eel pie.
1857. Rev. E. Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'), Verdant Green, pt. II., ch. vii. Why, a dove tart is what mortals call a pigeon-pie.
Dowlas, subs. (common).—A
draper. [From dowlas, now a
kind of towelling, but mentioned
by Shakspeare (1 Henry IV., III.,
iii., 1597) as a material for shirts. ]
