Kissing-trap, subs. (common).—The mouth; the whisker-bed (q.v.). For synomyms see Potato trap.
1853. C. Bede, Verdant Green, pt. 1. p. 106. His kissing trap countered, his ribs roasted.
1887. Atkin, House Scraps. The off-*side of his kissing-trap Displays an ugly mark!
Kiss-me-quick, subs. (common).—1.
A kiss-curl (q.v.).
2. (popular).—The name of a very small, once fashionable bonnet.
1855. Haliburton, ('Sam Slick'), Human Nature, p. 131. She holds out with each hand a portion of her silk dress, as if she was walking a minuet, and it discloses a snow white petticoat. Her step is short and mincing, and she wears a new bonnet called a kiss-me-quick.
1885. S. Baring Gould, Court Royal, ii. Or this Dolly Varden with panniers, a little passed in style, and a kiss-me-quick bonnet.
3. (American).—See quot.
1871. De Vere, Americanisms, p. . . . But of all the rare compounds known to Eastern bar-rooms, few ever reach his secluded home. Nor would he appreciate the bewitching softness of 'Long Linked Sweetness,' or the ecstacy produced by a 'kiss-me-quick'—he likes to take it strong and hot.
Kist-o'-whustles, subs. (Scots').—An
organ.
1640. Lesly's March [Minst. Scot. Border (1812), ii. 11]. And the kist-fou of whistles, That mak sic a cleiro.
1864. Letter in Glasgow Herald, 10 Dec. We have had, especially in our city churches, highly trained choirs, and we have now at our doors, clamouring for admission, the kist o' whistles, the horror of former generations of Scotch-*men.
1870. Orchestra, May. By a majority of seventy-two the English Presbyterian Synod has vindicated the right of congregations to adopt the kist fu' o' whistles in their church services if they be so minded. The fight fought in Regent Square Church recently was hotly contested.
Kit, subs. (old).—1. A dancing master.—New
Cant. Dict. (1725);
Grose (1785); Lex. Bal. (1811);
[From Kit = a small violin].
2. (popular).—A person's baggage or impediments; an outfit; a collection of anything. The whole kit = the lot; the whole gridiron or the whole boiling. In American, the kit and boodle.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Kit . . . likewise the whole of a soldier's necessaries, the content of his knapsack, and is used also to express the whole of different commodities; here take the whole kit, i.e., take all.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, xxxiv. 'Hush!—hush!—I tell you it shall be a joint business.' 'Why, will ye give me half the kitt?' 'What, half the estate?—d'ye mean we should set up house together at Ellangowan.'
1820. Shelley, Œdipus Tyrannus, 1. Now, Soloman, I'd sell you in a lump The whole kit of them.
1833. Marryat, Peter Simple, i. ch. xiv. I need hardly say that my lord's kit was valuable, but what was better they exactly fitted me.
1843. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxv. 'Ah! I see 'em,' said Mrs. Gamp; 'all the whole kit of 'em numbered like hackney-coaches, ain't they?'
1846. Punch, ii. p. 44. 'I've got a wife—more fool I—and a kit o' children wuss luck!'
1848. Thackeray, Book of Snobs, x. He has since devoted his time to billiards, steeple-chasing, and the turf. His headquarters are Rummer's, in Conduit Street, where he keeps his kit, but he is ever on the move in the exercise of his vocation as a gentleman jockey and gentleman leg.
