cray
Crazy.
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cray-cray
Crazy.
craytur
creature (a wretch).
crazy enough to work
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
crazy-ass
Very crazy.
cream and sugar
milk and sugar added to coffee or tea
cream in one's coffee
something that adds pleasure or enjoyment
cream in one's jeans
to be extremely excited or thrilled
cream of the crop
The best of a particular group or set
cream of the valley
gin
cream rises to the top
Talent and quality are eventually recognized
cream the crop
The best of something
cream-pot love
Such as young fellows pretend to dairymaids, to get cream and other good things from them.
creature comfort
Things that bring physical comfort and pleasure
creature feature
a movie featuring monsters or supernatural creatures
creature of statute
An entity created by law or statute
creature of the night
A person who is most active at night
Credence Table
The table near the altar on which the bread and wine are deposited before they are consecrated. In former times food was placed on a credence- table to be tasted previously to its being set before the guests. This was done to assure the guests that the meat was not poisoned. (Ital. credenza, a shelf or buffet.) Credit Foncier (kra' de fong' si a).
credit card
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
credit card slot
The vulva.
creepazoid
Creepy.
creepers
Gentlemen's companions, lice.
creeping barrage
A curtain of artillery fire moving forward on a time schedule.
creepoid
Creepy.
Crescent City
The descriptive name in the U.S.A. for New Orleans.
crescent fresh
Very fresh.
crescent spanner
a flexible and adjustable wrench
Cretins of the Alps
The word is a corruption of Christian (Chretien), because, being bap- tized, and only idiots, they were "washed from original sm," and incapable of actual sin. Similarly, idiots are called innocents. (Fr. cretin.
crevice
The vagina.
crew
A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words:
Crewel Garters
Garters made of worsted or yarn. Ha! ha! look, he wears cruel garters.
crib
A house. To crack a crib: to break open a house.
crib
House, public or otherwise; lodgings, apartments; a situation. Very general in the latter sense.
crib biter
An inveterate grumbler; properly said of a horse which has this habit, a sign of its bad digestion.
cribbage-faced
Marked with the small pox, the pits bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a cribbage-board.
cribbage-faced
Marked with the small-pox, full of holes like a cribbage-board. Otherwise crumpet-face.
crikey
Profane exclamation of astonishment; "Oh, CRIKEY, you don’t say so!" corruption of "O Christ!" Sometimes varied by "O crimes!"
crim
CON. MONEY. Damages directed by a jury to be paid by a convicted adulterer to the injured husband, for criminal conversation with his wife.
crime and punishment
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
crime does not pay
Engaging in illegal activities will ultimately result in negative consequences.
crimp
A broker or factor, as a coal crimp, who disposes of the cargoes of the Newcastle coal ships; also persons employed to trapan or kidnap recruits for the East Indian and African companies. To crimp, or play crimp; to play foul or booty: also a cruel manner of cutting up fish alive, practised by the London fishmongers, in order to make it eat firm; cod, and other crimped fish, being a favourite dish among voluptuaries and epicures.
crinkum crankum
A woman's commodity. See SPECTATOR.
crinkums
The foul or venereal disease.
cripple
Sixpence; that piece being commonly much bent and distorted.
cripple
An awkward or clumsy person. Also one of dull wits.
crispin's holiday
Every Monday throughout the year, but most particularly the 25th of October, being the anniversary of Crispinus and Crispianus.
criss-cross, applesauce
Traditional English proverbial phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
croak
To die.
croak
To die—from the gurgling sound a person makes when the breath of life is departing.
croaker
A doctor.
croaker
One who is always foretelling some accident or misfortune: an allusion to the croaking of a raven, supposed ominous.
croaker
One who takes a desponding view of everything, a misanthrope; an alarmist. From the croaking of a raven.—Ben Jonson.
croakers
Forestallers, called also Kidders and Tranters.
croaks
Last dying speeches, and murderers’ confessions.
croakumshire
Northumberland, from the particular croaking the pronunciation of the people of that county, especially about Newcastle and Morpeth, where they are said to be born with a burr in their throats, which prevents their pronouncing the letter r.
crock of gold
a valuable or desirable thing
crock off
To give off color pigments from mechanical action (e.g. rubbing)
crocodile tear
A false or insincere tear
crocodile tears
Hypocritical tears. The tale is, that crocodiles moan and sigh like a person in deep distress, to allure travellers to the spot, and even shed tears over their prey while in the act of devouring it.
crocodile's tears
The tears of a hypocrite. Crocodiles are fabulously reported to shed tears over their prey before they devour it.
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