snooze
Or SNOODGE (vulgar pronunciation), to sleep or doze.
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snoozing ken
A brothel. The swell was spiced in a snoozing ken of his screens; the gentleman was robbed of his bank notes in a brothel.
snorter
A blow on the nose. A hurry is sometimes called a "reg’lar SNORTER."
snot
A term of reproach applied to persons by the vulgar when vexed or annoyed, meaning really a person of the vilest description and meanest capacity. In a Westminster school vocabulary for boys, published in the last century, the term is curiously applied. Its proper meaning is the glandular mucus discharged through the nose.
snotter
Or WIPE-HAULER, a pickpocket whose chief fancy is for gentlemen’s pocket-handkerchiefs.—North.
snottinger
A coarse word for a pocket-handkerchief. The German Schnupftuch is, however, nearly as plain. A handkerchief was also anciently called a "muckinger" or "muckender," and from that a neckerchief was called a "neckinger."
snow
Linen hung out to dry or bleach. Spice the snow; to steal the linen.
snow
Wet linen, or linen hung out to dry.—Old Cant.
snow-gatherer
Or SNOW-DROPPER, a rogue who steals linen from hedges and drying-grounds.
snowball
A jeering appellation for a negro.
snowden’s
Magistrate’s Assistant, and Constable’s Guide, thick small 8vo. 1852.
snub nose
A short nose turned up at the end.
snudge
A thief who hides himself under a bed, in Order to rob the house.
snuff
To take snuff; to be offended.
snuff
"up to SNUFF," knowing and sharp; "to take SNUFF," to be offended. Shakspeare uses SNUFF in the sense of anger, or passion.
snuff it
To die. Term very common among the lower orders of London. A fanciful variation of "putting one’s light out," and used simply in reference to the action of the person dying. Thus any one threatening to murder another says, "I’ll put your light out," or any one committing suicide is said to "put his own light out;" but to "SNUFF IT" is always to die from disease or accident. To "lay down one’s knife and fork," to "peg out," or "give up," are variations of this form of euphemism.
snuffles
A cold in the head, attended with a running at the nose.
snug
All's snug; all's quiet.
snuggle
To lie closely and cosily.
snyder
A tailor. German, SCHNEIDER.
so-so
Not particularly reputable. "A very SO-SO sort of a person," a person whom it is no advantage to know. "It was very SO-SO" (said of a piece of work or an entertainment), it was neither good nor bad.
soaker
An habitual drunkard.
soap
Flattery. See SOFT SOAP.
sober-water
A jocular allusion to the uses of soda-water.
sock
The Eton College term for a treat, synonymous with "chuck" used at Westminster and other schools. Believed to be derived from the monkish word SOKE. An old writer speaks of a pious man "who did not SOKE for three days," meaning that he fasted. The word is still used by the boys of Heriot’s Hospital School at Edinburgh, and signifies a sweetmeat; being derived from the same source as sugar, suck, SUCRE, &c.
sock into him
I.e., give him a good drubbing; "give him SOCK," i.e., thrash him well.
socket-money
Money extorted by threats of exposure. To be applied to for SOCKET-MONEY is perhaps one of the most terrible inflictions that can befall a respectable man. SOCKETERS, as the applicants are called, should be punished with the utmost possible severity.
sodom
A nickname for Wadham, due to the similarity of the sounds.—Oxford University.
soft
Foolish, inexperienced. A term for bank-notes.
soft-horn
A simpleton; literally a donkey, whose ears, the substitutes of horns, are soft.
soft-sawder
Flattery easily laid on or received. Probably introduced by Sam Slick.
soft-soap
Or soft-sawder, flattery, ironical praise.
soft-tommy
Loaf-bread, in contradistinction to hard biscuit.
soiled doves
The "Midnight Meeting" term for prostitutes and "gay" ladies generally.
sold
"SOLD again! and got the money," gulled, deceived. Vide SELL.
sold up
Or OUT, broken down, bankrupt.
soldier
A red herring. Common term in seaport towns, where exchange is made, a soldier being called by the fishy title.
soldier's mawnd
A pretended soldier, begging with a counterfeit wound, which he pretends to have received at some famous siege or battle.
soldier's pomatum
A piece of tallow candle.
solo player
A miserable performer on any instrument, who always plays alone, because no one will stay in the room to hear him.
son of a gun
A familiar term for a man. Sometimes applied eulogistically, never contemptuously. Generally said of an artful person, and perhaps, originally, son of a "gun," (or "gonnof"). In the army it is sometimes applied to an artilleryman.
song
He changed his song; he altered his account or evidence. It was bought for an old song, i.e. very cheap. His morning and his evening song do not agree; he tells a different story.
sonkey
A clumsy, awkward fellow.
soor
An abusive term. Hindostanee, a pig.—Anglo-Indian.
sooterkin
A joke upon the Dutch women, supposing that, by their constant use of stoves, which they place under their petticoats, they breed a kind of small animal in their bodies, called a sooterkin, of the size of a mouse, which when mature slips out.
sop
A bribe. A sop for Cerberus; a bribe for a porter, turnkey, or gaoler.
sop
A soft or foolish man. Abbreviation of MILKSOP.
soph
(Cambridge) An undergraduate in his second year.
soph
(abbreviation of "sophister"), a title peculiar to the University of Cambridge. Undergraduates are junior SOPHS before passing their "Little Go," or first University examination,—senior SOPHS after that.
sorrel
A yellowish red. Sorrel pate; one having red hair.
sorrow shall be his sops
He shall repent this. Sorrow go by me; a common expletive used by presbyterians in Ireland.
sorrowful tale
Three months in jail.
sorry
Vile, mean, worthless. A sorry fellow, or hussy; a worthless man or woman.
sort
Used in a slang sense thus—"That’s your SORT," as a term of approbation. "Pitch it into him, that’s your SORT," i.e., that is the proper kind of plan to adopt.
soul case
The body. He made a hole in his soul case; he wounded him.
sound
To pump, or draw information from a person in an artful manner.
souper
An Irish Roman Catholic who pretends conversion—or perversion—so as to obtain a share of the soup and blankets provided for Protestants only by Christian missionaries. These recalcitrants are also called "swaddlers."
souse
Not a souse; not a penny. FRENCH.
sou’-wester
A hat with a projection behind. Much worn at sea in "dirty" weather. A hat similar to that of a dustman or coalheaver, which is called a "fantail."
sov
Contraction of sovereign; much used in sporting parlance to denote the amount of entrance money, forfeit, and added coin in connexion with a race. In the published conditions of a race the word SOVS is almost invariably used in preference to pounds, though in reckoning the net value of a big stake, after its decision, the common £ is used.