pion (Villon); un pilier de cabaret (= a pub-ornament); un pictonneur (picton = wine); un mannezingueur; un marchand d'eau chaude (= piss-maker); un marchand d'eau de javelle.
German synonym. Matto-*bolo (= a drunken pig: from the Gypsy matto = drunk).
Italian synonyms. Fransoso (= a Frenchman); chiaritore; chiaristante.
Spanish synonyms. Cuero (= a goat-skin bottle); colodra (= a wooden pail in which wine is measured and retailed); cuba (= a measure for wine); difunto de taberna (lit., a public-house corpse); odre (= a wine-skin); pellejo (= a wine-skin); peneque; potista; odrina (= an ox-hide bottle).
Dutch synonyms. Buisbalk; buiskinne or buizerik.
1826. The Fancy, i. 31. He is reported not to take sufficient care of himself: Lushington is evidently his master.
1840. Comic Almanack, 239. A blessed school of physic—half-and-half! The lushington of each young Doctor's Commons.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 68. They sell it at the public houses to the lushingtons.
1859. Matsell, 'A hundred stretches hence.' With all the prigs and lushingmen, A hundred stretches hence.
Lushy, adj. (common).—Drunk. For
synonyms see Drinks and
Screwed.
1819. Vaux, Memoirs, 188, s.v.
1821. Haggart, Life, 33. We met with a drover, quite lushy.
1821. The Fancy, 1, p. 303. At the Goat, as aforementioned, Ben Burn and Randall being both a little lushy.
1828. Maginn, from Vidocq, The Pickpocket's Chaunt. A regular swell cove lushy lay. To his clies my hooks I throw in, Tol, lol, etc.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick, xx. I was so uncommon lushy, that I couldn't find the place where the latch-key went in, and was obliged to knock up the old 'ooman.
1876. Hindley, Adventures of A Cheap Jack, 57. A lushy cove.
Lusk, subs. (old).—An idler. Also,
luskish; as adj. = idle.
1531-47. Copland, Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous, l. 40. Boyes, gyrles, and luskish strong knaues.
b.1602. Lingua [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ix. 462]. Up, with a pox to you; up you lusk. [Note: lusk = idle, lazy, slothful. Minshew derives it from the French lasche, desidiosus].
Lust-proud. See Prick-proud.
Lustres, subs. (American thieves').—Diamonds.—Matsell
(1859).
Lusty-Lawrence, subs. (old).—A
good wencher; a performer
(q.v.). Also lusty-guts.
1599. Porter, Two Angry Women [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vii. 295]. Well, lusty-guts, I mean to make ye stay.
1603-37. Breton, Mad Letters, [Grosart (1869), h. 33, 7, 12]. While lustie-guts and his best beloued were casting sheepes eyes at a cods head.
1621. Burton, Anat. (ed. 1892), ii. 40. Well fed like Hercules, Proculus . . . and lusty laurence.
Lute, subs. (venery).—The female
pudendum. For synonyms see
Monosyllable.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, ii. 312. Her face like an angel, fair, plump, and a Maid, Her lute well in Tune too, could he but have plaid. Ibid. v. 4. Her white belly'd lute she set to his flute.
Lux, subs. (Blue-coat School).—A
good thing; 'a splendid thing;
e.g., My knife is wooston a lux.
