Indispensables, subs. (common).—Trousers. See Bags and Kicks.
1842. Comic Almanack, June. He slapped his hand against his yellow leather indispensables.
1843. Selby, Anthony & Cleopatra Married & Settled. But my love, consider, the gentleman is waiting for his indispensables.
Indorse, verb. (old).—1. To cudgel;
to 'lay cane on Abel'—Grose
(1785).
2. (venery).—To practise sodomy.
Indorser, subs, (venery).—A sodomite;
a chuffer (Grose, 1785).
For synomyns see Usher.
Ineffable, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms see Monosyllable.
2. in pl. (common).—Trousers. For synonyms see Bags and Kicks.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiography, ch. iii. It was said, also, that during the blissful era of the blue velvet, we had roast mutton for supper; but that the small clothes not being then in existence, and the mutton suppers too luxurious, the eatables were given up for the ineffables.
Inexplicables, subs. (common).—Trousers.
For synonyms see Bags
and Kicks.
1836. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, ch. ii. (C.D.Ed.) p. 182. He usually wore a brown frock-coat without a wrinkle, light inexplicables without a spot.
Inexpressibles, subs. (common).—Trousers.
For synonyms see Bags
and Kicks.
1790. Wolcot, (P. Pindar) Rowland for an Oliver, in Wks [Dublin 1795] Vol. ii. p. 154. I've heard, that breeches, petticoats, & smock, Give to thy modest mind a grievous shock, And that thy brain (so lucky its device) Christ'neth them inexpressibles, so nice.
1820. Reynolds, (Peter Corcoran), The Fancy 'King Tim', i. 1. That single breasted coat, that sweet snub nose, Those inexpressibles: I know the clothes.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, vi. While thus musing, he was suddenly accosted by a gentleman in boots and spurs, having a riding whip in one hand, and the other hand stuck in the pocket of his inexpressibles.
1835. Buckstone, Dream at Sea, ii. 2. Tom. Body & breeches. Bid. Hush: you should say inexpressibles—that's the way genteel people talk.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick Papers, ch. lv, p. 483. Symmetrical inexpressibles, and scented pocket-handkerchiefs.
183. Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log, xii. Whenever I get my inexpressibles on, I will come to you there.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, i. 39. Condescend to don at the same time an Elizabethan doublet and Bond-St. inexpressibles.
1842. Dickens, American Notes, ch. xxi., p. 100. He . . . had grown recently, for it had been found necessary to make an addition to the legs of his inexpressibles.
1871. City Press, 21 Jan. 'Curiosities of Street Literature'. The sale of a wife, and full particulars of 'Taking off Prince Albert's inexpressibles,' done by a scamp.
Infant. See Woolwich Infant.
Infantry, subs. (common).—Children.
In French, entrer dans
l'infanterie = to fall with child.
For synonyms see Kid.
1623. Jonson, Time Vindicated. Hangs all his school with sharp sentences, And o'er the execution place hath painted, Time whipt, as terror to the infantry.
1675. Cotton, Scoffer Scoffed [4th ed. 1725, p. 181]. Others a spirit that doth lie In wait to catch up infantry.
Light Infantry, subs. phr. (common).—Fleas. Cf. Heavy Dragoons.
1894. Westminster Gazette, 15th Nov. p. 2, col. 1. An Irish lady of good family was remonstrated with by a guest on account of the noctural assaults
