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bog
To go away.
bog
Or BOG-HOUSE, a privy, as distinguished from a water-closet. Originally printers’ slang, but now very common, and not applied to any particular form of cabinet d’aisance. "To BOG" is to ease oneself by evacuation.
bog house
The necessary house. To go to bog; to go to stool.
bog lander
An Irishman; Ireland being famous for its large bogs, which furnish the chief fuel in many parts of that kingdom.
bog latin
Barbarous Latin. Irish.--See DOG LATIN, and APOTHECARIES LATIN.
bog off
go away, leave me alone
bog orange
A potato.
bog-oranges
Potatoes. A phrase perhaps derived from the term "Irish fruit," which, by some strange peculiarity has been applied to potatoes; for even the most ignorant Cockney could hardly believe that potatoes grow in a bog.
bog-trotter
Satirical name for an Irishman.—Miege. Camden, however, speaking of the "debateable land" on the borders of England and Scotland, says, "both these dales breed notable BOG-TROTTERS."
bogged down
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
bogus
An American term for anything pretending to be that which it is not—such as BOGUS degrees, BOGUS titles, &c.
bogy
Ask bogy, i.e. ask mine a-se. Sea wit.
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.
Bohemia on Maundy Thursday
She is also said to have been heard to speak on two occasions, once in December, 1628, when she said, "I wait for judgment!" and once at Neuhaus, when she said to the princes, *' *Tis ten o'clock.
Bohemian Brethren
A religious sect formed out of the remnants of the Hussites. They arose at Prague in the 15th century, and are the forerunners of the modern Moravians.
boil over
to become extremely angry or violent
boil up
to suddenly become angry or violent
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.
boiling frog
Describes a situation where a problem develops gradually, unnoticed until it's too late.
boiling hot
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
boiling mad
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
boiling point
The point at which someone's anger or frustration becomes extreme
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.
bold and beautiful
Confident and attractive
bold as brass
Downright impudent; without modesty. Similarly we say "brazen- faced.
Bold Briareus
Handel (1685-1759), so called by Pope: — Strong in new arms, lo ' giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums; POPE: Dunciad, iv, 65.
boldly go where no man has gone before
To venture into unknown or unexplored territory
bolehland
Malaysia.
bolivian marching powder
Cocaine.
bollocked
Exhausted.
bollocksed
drunk
Bologna Stone
A sulphate of baryta found in masses near Bologna. After being heated, powdered, and exposed to the light it becomes phosphorescent.
Bolognese School
There were three periods to the Bolognese School in painting — the Early, the Roman, and the Eclectic. The first was founded by Marco Zoppo, in the 15th century, and its best exponent was Francia. The second was founded in the 16th century by Bagnacavallo, and its chief exponents were Primaticio, Tibaldi, and Nicolo dell* Abate.
bolt
To run away, decamp, or abscond. Also to swallow without chewing. To eat greedily.
bolt bucket
a container for collecting bolts or other small parts
bolt from the blue
An unexpected and surprising event
bolt in tun
In heraldry, a bird-bolt, in pale, piercing through a tun, often used as a public-house sign. The punning crest of Serjeant Bolton, who died 1787, was "on a wreath a tun erect proper, transpierced by an arrow fesseways or." Another family ot the same name has for crest "a tun with a bird- bolt through it proper." A third, harping on the same string, has "a bolt gules in a tun or.
bolt to the bran
to suddenly understand something
bolt upright
As erect, or straight up, as an arrow set on its end.
bolt upright
Straight as an arrow. Wmsinge she was, as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt.
bolted arrow
A blunt arrow for shooting young rooks with a cross-bow; called "bolting rooks." A gun would not do, and an arrow would mangle the little things too much.
bolus
A nick name for an apothecary.
bolus
An apothecary. Origin evident.
bomb out
to fail completely or utterly
Bombay Duck
A fish, the bummalo, which, is dried and eaten with curries.
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.
bon ton
Good manners or manners accredited by good society.
bon vivant
A free liver; one who indulges in the "good things of the table." Bon viveur means much the same, but is rather stronger, suggesting one who makes a pursuit of other pleasures besides those of the table.
bone
To steal or appropriate what does not belong to you. BONED, seized, apprehended.—Old.
bone dry
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
bone hard
extremely difficult or challenging
bone in her teeth
A ship sailing very fast
bone in the throat
A persistent annoyance or problem
bone of contention
A subject or issue that causes disagreement or dispute
bone to pick
A dispute or issue to discuss or argue about
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
Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
boned
Seized, apprehended, taken up by a constable. CANT.
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