plaister of warm guts
One warm belly'dapped to another; a receipt frequently prescribed for different disorders.
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plant
The place in the house of the fence where stolen goods are secreted. Any place where stolen goods are concealed.
plant
A dodge, a preconcerted swindle; a position in the street to sell from. All bearings-up, bonnetings, and such like arrangements, are the results of preconcerted schemes or PLANTS.
plate
Money, silver, prize. He is in for the plate; he has won the KEAT, i.e. is infected with the venereal disorder: a simile drawn from horse-racing. When the plate fleet comes in; when money comes to hand.
platform
A standpoint in an argument, a statement of political or general opinion. "Home rule’s my PLATFORM!" Originally American, but now general.
play
To play booty; to play with an intention to lose. To play the whole game; to cheat. To play least in sight; to hide, or keep out of the way. To play the devil; to be guilty of some great irregularity or mismanagement.
play
To strike for higher wages, to be out of work.—North.
plebs
A term used to stigmatize a tradesman’s son at Westminster School. Latin, PLEBS, the vulgar.
plough
To be PLOUGHED is to fail to pass an examination. About twenty years ago "pluck," the word then used, began to be superseded by PLOUGH. It is said to have arisen from a man who could not supply the examiner with any quotation from Scripture, until at last he blurted out, "And the ploughers ploughed on my back, and made long furrows."—University.
pluck
The heart, liver, and lungs of an animal,—all that is PLUCKED away in connexion with the windpipe, from the chest of a sheep or hog.
plucked un
A stout or brave fellow; "he’s a rare PLUCKED UN," i.e., he dares face anything.
plum
£100,000, usually applied to the dowry of a rich heiress, to a legacy, or to a sum made in business or by a lucky speculation.
plum-cash
Prime cost.—Anglo-Chinese.
plumb
An hundred thousand pounds.
plummy
It is all plummy; i.e. all is right, or as it ought to be.
plummy
Round, sleek, jolly, or fat; excellent, very good, first-rate.
plump
Fat, full, fleshy. Plump in the pocket; full in the pocket. To plump; to strike, or shoot. I'll give you a plump in the bread basket, or the victualling office: I'll give you a blow in the stomach. Plump his peepers, or day-lights; give him a blow in the eyes. He pulled out his pops and plumped him; he drew out his pistols and shot him. A plumper; a single vote at an election. Plump also means directly, or exactly; as, it fell plump upon him: it fell directly upon him.
plump currant
I am not plump currant; I am out of sorts.
plumper
A single vote at an election, not a "split ticket."
plumpers
Contrivances said to be formerly worn by old maids, for filling out a pair of shrivelled cheeks.
plunder
A common word in the horse trade to express profit. Also an American term for baggage, luggage. In Lower Canada the French packmen call luggage "butin."
plunger
A heavy cavalry-man.—Military slang.
plutocracy
The wealthy classes. The Manchester merchants are often termed a millocracy, and words of a similar character are mobocracy and moneyocracy.
plyer
A crutch; also a trader.
To put up with. A man who does not resent an affront is said to POCKET it.
podgy
Drunk; dumpy, short, and fat.
pogram
A Dissenter, a fanatic, formalist, or humbug. So called from a well-known enthusiast of this name.
point
To stretch a point; to exceed some usual limit, to take a great stride. Breeches were usually tied up with points, a kind of short laces, formerly given away by the churchwardens at Whitsuntide, under the denomination of tags: by taking a great stride these were stretched.
poisoned
Big with child: that wench is poisoned, see how her belly is swelled. Poison-pated: red-haired.
poke
A blow with the fist: I'll lend you a poke. A poke likewise means a sack: whence, to buy a pig in a poke, i.e. to buy any thing without seeing or properly examining it.
poke
A bag, or sack; "to buy a pig in a POKE," to purchase anything without seeing it. POKE was originally a pocket. Shakspeare says—
poker
A sword. Fore pokers; aces and kings at cards. To burn your poker; to catch the venereal disease.
poker
"By the holy POKER and the tumbling Tom!" an Irish oath.
pokers
Or SILVER POKERS, the Bedels of the Vice-Chancellor, who carry silver maces, and accompany him through the streets. They are also officers of his court.—University.
poky
Confined or cramped; "that corner is POKY and narrow." Housewives describe a small uncomfortable room as "a POKY hole." Saxon, POKE, a sack.
pole
He is like a rope-dancer's polo, lead at both ends; a saying of a stupid sluggish fellow.
policeman
A fly—more especially the kind known as "blue bottle." Also, among the dangerous classes, a man who is unworthy of confidence, a sneak or mean fellow.
polish
To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to be in gaol, and look through the iron grated windows. To polish a bone; to eat a meal. Come and polish a bone with me; come and eat a dinner or supper with me.
polish off
to finish or complete something quickly
poll
The head, jolly nob, napper, or knowledge box; also a wig.
poll
At Cambridge, the "ordinary degree" candidates for the B.A. Examination, who do not aspire to the "Honours" list. From the Greek, οἱ πόλλοι, "the many."
polony
Cockney shortening and vulgar pronunciation of Bologna (sausage). The sausages which are sold under the name of POLONIES have, however, no nearer connexion with Bologna sausages than that of the word’s derivation.
polt
A blow. Lend him a polt in the muns; give him a knock in the face.
pomp
To save one's pomp at whist, is to score five before the adversaries are up, or win the game: originally derived from pimp, which is Welsh for five; and should be, I have saved my pimp.
pompadours
The Fifty-sixth Regiment of Foot in the British army.
pompaginis
Aqua pompaginis; pump water. See AQUA.
pompkin
A man or woman of Boston in America: from, the number of pompkins raised and eaten by the people of that country. Pompkinshire; Boston and its dependencies.
ponce
A degraded man who lives upon a woman’s prostitution. Low-class East-end thieves even will "draw the line" at PONCES, and object to their presence in the boozing-kens.
pond
Or HERRING-POND, the sea; so called by those who were sent across it at the national expense.
poney
Money. Post the poney; lay down the money.
ponge
Or PONGELOW, beer, half-and-half; the term is also used as a verb, as in the Cockney phrase, "let’s PONGELOW, shall we?"
pontius pilate
A pawnbroker. Pontius Pilate's guards, the first regiment of foot, or Royal Scots: so intitled from their supposed great antiquity. Pontius Pilate's counsellor; one who like him can say, Non invenio causam, I can find no cause. Also (Cambridge) a Mr. Shepherd of Trinity College; who disputing with a brother parson on the comparative rapidity with which they read the liturgy, offered to give him as far as Pontius Pilate in the Belief.
pony
Twenty-five pounds.—Sporting.
poona
A sovereign. Corruption of "pound;" or from the Lingua Franca.
pop
To pawn or pledge; "to POP up the spout," to pledge at the pawnbroker’s,—an allusion to the spout up which the brokers send the ticketed articles until such times as they shall be redeemed. The spout runs from the ground-floor to the wareroom at the top of the house. Ginger-beer is also known as POP.
pop the question
To ask someone to marry you
pope
A figure burned annually every fifth of November, in memory of the gunpowder plot, which is said to have been carried on by the papists.
pope's nose
the tail end of a cooked chicken or turkey
pope’s-eye
A peculiar little part in a leg of mutton, much esteemed by lovers of that joint.
pops
Pistols. Popshop: a pawnbroker's shop. To pop; to pawn: also to shoot. I popped my tatler; I pawned my watch. I popt the cull; I shot the man. His means are two pops and a galloper; that is, he is a highwayman.