shit-eating grin
A smug or self-satisfied smile
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shitaly
Italy.
shitfaced
Very drunk.
shitkicker
A workboot.
shitrael
Israel.
shitter
A toilet or lavatory; an outhouse.
shitting match
a petty or worthless competition
shitty
Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.
shiver me timbers
An expression of surprise or shock
Shivering Mountain
Mam Tor, a hill on the Peak of Derbyshire; so called from the waste of its mass by "shivering" — that is, breaking away in "shivers' ' or small pieces. This has been going on for ages, as the hill consists of alter- nate layers of shale and gritstone.
shizzit
Shit.
shizzle
Shit.
shmekl
a penis
shmexy
Sexy.
shock and awe
Overwhelming power or spectacle that inspires shock and amazement
shock to the system
A sudden and significant change or event
shockhead
A head of long, unkempt, and rough hair.
shod all round
A parson who attends a funeral is said to be shod all round, when he receives a hat-band, gloves, and scarf: many shoeings being only partial.
shoddy
Old cloth worked up into new; made from soldiers’ and policemen’s coats. The old cloth is pulled to pieces, the yarn unravelled and carded over again. This produces shoddy, which is very short in the fibre, and from it are produced, on again twisting and weaving, cloth fabrics used for ladies’ mantles, &c. Also, a term of derision applied to workmen in woollen factories.—Yorkshire.
shoddy characters
Persons of tarnished reputation, like cloth made of shoddy or refuse wool.
shoe
To free or initiate a person,—a practice common in most trades to a new-comer. The SHOEING consists in paying for beer, or other liquor, which is drunk by the older hands. The cans emptied, and the bill paid, the stranger is considered properly SHOD. SHOEING is a variation of "paying one’s footing."
shoe leather!
A thief’s warning cry when he hears footsteps. This exclamation is used in the spirit which animated the friend who, when he suspected treachery towards Bruce at King Edward’s court, in 1306, sent him a purse and a pair of spurs, as a sign that he should use them in making his escape.
shoemaker's stocks
New, or strait shoes. I was in the shoemaker's stocks; i.e. had on a new pair of shoes that were too small for me.
shoes
"to die in one’s SHOES," to be hanged. In the old hanging days a highwayman would often kick off his shoes when the rope was round his neck, so as—oh, vain and impotent attempt!—to defeat the prophecy that had foreshadowed his present position.
shoes, children’s, to make
To suffer oneself to be made sport of, or depreciated. Commonly used in Norfolk.—Cf. Mrs. Behn’s comedy, The Roundheads.
shoful
A Hansom cab. This favourite carriage was the invention of a Mr. Hansom, afterwards connected with the Builder newspaper. It has been asserted that the term SHOFUL was derived from "shovel," the earliest slang term applied to Hansoms by other cab-drivers, who conceived their shape to be after the fashion of a scoop or shovel. A logical friend of the present Editor’s argues thus:—SHOFUL, full of show, ergo, beautiful—handsome—Hansom.
shoful pullet
A "gay" or unsteady woman, especially a young woman.
shoful-pitcher
A passer of bad money. SHOFUL-PITCHING, passing bad money. "Snide-pitcher" and "Snide-pitching" are terms exchangeable with the preceding.
sholl
To bonnet one, or crush a person’s hat over his eyes.—North.
shool
To saunter idly, to become a vagabond, to beg rather than work.—Smollett’s Roderick Random, vol. i., p. 262.
shoot 'em up
A film or game with intense action and violence
shoot down
to reject or refute an idea or proposal
shoot first and ask questions later
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shoot from the lip
Speak without thinking or considering consequences
shoot holes
to criticize or discredit something
shoot off
to talk excessively or recklessly
shoot off at the mouth
To talk excessively or thoughtlessly
shoot one's bolt
To use up all one's resources or efforts at once
shoot one's load
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shoot oneself in the foot
To unintentionally harm or cause problems for oneself
shoot the boots
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shoot the bull
to chat casually and idly
shoot the cat
To vomit.
shoot the gold
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shoot the messenger
to punish or blame someone for bringing bad news
shoot through
To leave, to disappear.
shooter
A firearm.
shooting stars
Incandescent meteors shoot- ing across the sky, formerly, like comets, fabled to presage disaster — A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
shop
A prison. Shopped; confined, imprisoned.
shop
In racing slang, to secure first, second, or third position in a race, is to get a SHOP. This is also known as a place, and as a situation. See PLACE.
shop-bouncer
Or SHOP-LIFTER, a person generally respectably attired, who, while being served with a small article at a shop, steals one of more value. Shakspeare has the word LIFTER, a thief.
shop-walker
A person employed to walk up and down a shop, to hand seats to customers, and see that they are properly served. Contracted also to WALKER.
shoplifter
One that steals whilst pretending to purchase goods in a shop.
shopping
Purchasing at shops. Termed by Todd a slang word, but used by Cowper and Byron.
shoppy
To be full of nothing but one’s own calling or profession; "to talk SHOP," to converse of nothing but professional subjects.
short
When spirit is drunk without any admixture of water, it is said to be taken "SHORT;" "summat SHORT," a dram. A similar phrase is used at the counters of banks; upon presenting a cheque, the clerk asks, "How will you take it?" i.e., in gold, or notes. If in notes, long or short? Should it be desired to receive it in notes for the largest possible amount, the answer is, SHORT.
short and curlies
pubic hair
short and fat
Sturdy and compact in shape
short and stout
Physically short and somewhat fat
short and sweet
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
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