bogy
Ask bogy, i.e. ask mine a-se. Sea wit.
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boh
Said to be the name of a Danish general, who so terrified his opponent Foh, that he caused him to bewray himself. Whence, when we smell a stink, it is custom to exclaim, Foh! i.e. I smell general Foh. He cannot say Boh to a goose; i.e. he is a cowardly or sheepish fellow.
boilers
Or BROMPTON BOILERS, a name originally given to the New Kensington Museum and School of Art, in allusion to the peculiar form of the buildings, and the fact of their being mainly composed of, and covered with, sheet iron. This has been changed since the extensive alterations in the building, or rather pile of buildings, and the words are now the property of the Bethnal Green Museum.—See PEPPER-BOXES.
boko
The nose. Originally pugilistic slang, but now general.
bold
Bold as a miller's shirt, which every day takes a rogue by the collar.
bolt
To run away, decamp, or abscond. Also to swallow without chewing. To eat greedily.
bolt upright
As erect, or straight up, as an arrow set on its end.
bolus
A nick name for an apothecary.
bolus
An apothecary. Origin evident.
bombay ducks
In the East India Company’s army the Bombay regiments were so designated. The name is now given to a dried fish (bummelow), much eaten by natives and Europeans in Western India.—Anglo-Indian.
bone
To steal or appropriate what does not belong to you. BONED, seized, apprehended.—Old.
bone-grubber
A person who hunts dust-holes, gutters, and all likely spots for refuse bones, which he sells at the rag-shops, or to the bone-grinders. The term was also applied to a resurrectionist. Cobbett was therefore called "a BONE GRUBBER," because he brought the remains of Tom Paine from America.
boned
Seized, apprehended, taken up by a constable. CANT.
bones
To rattle the BONES, to play at dice: also called St. Hugh’s BONES.
bonesetter
A hard-trotting horse.
boniface
Landlord of a tavern or inn.
bonnet
Or BONNETER, a gambling cheat. Sometimes called a "bearer-up." The BONNET plays as though he were a member of the general public, and by his good luck, or by the force of his example, induces others to venture their stakes. Bonneting is often done in much better society than that to be found in the ordinary gaming rooms. A man who persuades another to buy an article on which he receives commission or per-centage is said to BONNET or bear-up for the seller.
booby hutch
A one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle.
booby-trap
A favourite amusement of boys at school. It consists in placing a pitcher of water on the top of a door set ajar for the purpose; the person whom they wish to drench is then made to pass through the door, and receives the pitcher and its contents on his unlucky head. Books are sometimes used.
book-keeper
One who never returns borrowed books. Out of one's books; out of one's fevor. Out of his books; out of debt.
booked
Caught, fixed, disposed of.—Term in Book-keeping.
bookmaker’s pocket
A breast-pocket made inside the waistcoat, for notes of large amount.
books
Cards to play with. To plant the books; to place the cards in the pack in an unfair manner.
books
A pack of cards. Term used by professional card-players.—See DEVIL’S BOOKS.
boom
"to top one’s BOOM off," to be off or start in a certain direction.—Sea.
boom-passenger
A sailor’s slang term for a convict on board ship. Derived from the circumstance that prisoners on board convict ships were chained to, or were made to crawl along or stand on the booms for exercise or punishment.
boon-companion
A comrade in a drinking bout. BOON evidently corruption of BON.
boot
Besides, Pope assures us, that "VICE TO BE HATED NEEDS BUT
boot catcher
The servant at an inn whose business it is to clean the boots of the guest.
boots
The youngest officer in a regimental mess, whose duty it is to skink, that is, to stir the fire, snuff the candles, and ring the bell. See SKINK.--To ride in any one's old boots; to marry or keep his cast-off mistress.
booty
To play booty; cheating play, where the player purposely avoids winning.
booze
Drink. Ancient Cant, BOWSE. BOOZE, or SUCK-CASA, a public-house.
boozing-ken
A beer-shop, a low public-house.—Ancient.
boozy
Intoxicated or fuddled.
borachio
A skin for holding wine, commonly a goat's; also a nick name for a drunkard.
borde
A shilling. A half borde; a sixpence.
bore
A tedious, troublesome man or woman, one who bores the ears of his hearers with an uninteresting tale; a term much in fashion about the years 1780 and 1781.
bore
A troublesome friend or acquaintance, perhaps so called from his unvaried and pertinacious pushing; a nuisance; anything which wearies or annoys. The Gradus ad Cantabrigiam suggests the derivation of BORE from the Greek Βάρος, a burden. Shakspeare uses it, King Henry VIII., i. 1—
bos-ken
A farmhouse. Ancient.—See KEN.
bosh
Nonsense, stupidity.—Gipsy and Persian. Also pure Turkish, BOSH LAKERDI, empty talk. The term was used in this country as early as 1760, and may be found in the Student, vol. ii. p. 217. It has been suggested, with what reason the reader must judge for himself, that this colloquial expression is from the German BOSH, or BOSSCH, answering to our word "swipes."
bosh-faker
A violin player. Term principally used by itinerants.
bosky
Inebriated. Not much in use now.
bosman
A farmer: "faking a BOSMAN on the main toby," robbing a farmer on the highway. BOSS, a master.—American. Both terms from the Dutch, BOSCH-MAN, one who lives in the woods; otherwise Boschjeman, or Bushman.
boss-eyed
Said of a person with one eye, or rather with one eye injured, a person with an obliquity of vision. In this sense sometimes varied by the term "swivel-eyed."
bostruchyzer
A small kind of comb for curling the whiskers.—Oxford University.
botany bay
Worcester Coll. Oxon., so called from its remote situation.
botch
A nick name for a taylor.
bother
Trouble or annoyance. Any one oppressed with business cares is said to be BOTHERED. "Don’t BOTHER," is a common expression. BLOTHER, an old word, signifying to chatter idly.
botherams
A convivial society.
botheration!
Trouble, annoyance; "BOTHERATION to it!" "confound it!" or "deuce take it!"—an exclamation when irritated.
bottle of spruce
A deuce,—slang for twopence.
bottle-holder
Originally a term in prize ring parlance for the second who took charge of the water-bottle, which was an essential feature in all pugilistic arrangements. This second used to hold the combatant on his knee between the rounds, while the other or principal second sponged, instructed, and advised; an abettor; also the bridegroom’s man at a wedding.
bottom
A polite term for the posteriors. Also, in the sporting sense, strength and spirits to support fatigue; as a bottomed horse. Among bruisers it is used to express a hardy fellow, who will bear a good beating.
bottom
Stamina in a horse or man. Power to stand fatigue; endurance to receive a good beating and still fight on. "A fellow of pluck, sound wind, and good BOTTOM is fit to fight anything." This was an old axiom among prize fighters. Pierce Egan was very fond of the word.
botts
The colic or bellyache.—Stable Slang. Burns uses it. See Death and Dr. Hornbook.
botty
Conceited, swaggering.—Stable. An infant’s posteriors.—Nursery.
boughs
Wide in the boughs; with large hips and posteriors.
bounce
Impudence, cheek. A showy swindler, a bully.
bounceable
Prone to bouncing or boasting.
bouncer
A large man or woman; also a great lie.