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spruce up
to make something look more attractive or tidy
sprung
Inebriated sufficiently to become boisterous.
spry
Active, strong, manly. Much used in America, but originally English.
spuddy
A seller of bad potatoes. In lower life, a SPUD is a raw potato; and roasted SPUDS are those cooked in the cinders with their skins on.
spun
When a man has failed in his examination at Woolwich, he is said to be SPUN; as at the Universities he is said to be "plucked" or "ploughed."
spunge
A thirsty fellow, a great drinker. To spunge; to eat and drink at another's cost. Spunging-house: a bailiff's lock-up-house, or repository, to which persons arrested are taken, till they find bail, or have spent all their money: a house where every species of fraud and extortion is practised under the protection of the law.
spunge
A mean, paltry fellow, sometimes called a SPUNGER.
spunging-house
The sheriff’s officer’s house, where prisoners, when arrested for debt, used to be taken. As extortionate charges were made there for accommodation, the name was far from inappropriate.
spunk
Rotten touchwood, or a kind of fungus prepared for tinder; figuratively, spirit, courage.
spunk
Spirit, fire, courage, mettle, good humour.
spunk-fencer
A lucifer-match seller.
spunks
Lucifer-matches.—Herefordshire; Scotland. SPUNK, says Urry, in his MS. notes to Ray, "is the excrescency of some tree, of which they make a sort of tinder to light their pipes with."
spur money
A small fine formerly imposed on those who entered a church wearing spurs, because of the interruption caused to divine service by their ringing. It was collected by the Choir-boys or the beadles.
spur of the moment
Done without prior planning or thought
sputter out
To emit a series of irregular, erratic popping or spitting sounds before shutting off.
squab
A fat man or woman: from their likeness to a well-stuffed couch, called also a squab. A new-hatched chicken.
squabby
Flat, short and thick. From SQUAB, a sofa.
square
Honest, not roguish. A square cove, i.e. a man who does not steal, or get his living by dishonest means.
square
Honest; "on the SQUARE," i.e., fair and strictly honest; "to turn SQUARE," to reform, and get one’s living in an honest manner,—the opposite of "cross." The expression is, in all probability, derived from the well-known masonic emblem the SQUARE, the symbol of evenness and rectitude.
square away
To organize or settle something
square cap
A trencher or mortar-board, like the college cap G?.v.).
square cove
An honest man, as distinguished from "cross cove."
square meal
A complete and satisfying meal
square moll
An honest woman, one who does not "batter."
square on
Directly and honestly
square one
back to the starting point
square peg in a round hole
Someone who does not fit in or is unsuited to a particular situation
square shooter
A person who is honest and fair in their dealings
square toes
An old man: square toed shoes were anciently worn in common, and long retained by old men.
squaring his nibs
Giving a policeman, or any official, money for an immoral or unlawful purpose. The term HIS NIBS has no reference to any functionary, as the words mean simply "him," and may be applied to any one.
squarum
A cobbler’s lapstone.
squash
To crush; "to go SQUASH," to collapse.
squash the beef
to resolve a conflict or disagreement
squeak
A narrow escape, a chance: he had a squeak for his life. To squeak; to confess, peach, or turn stag. They squeak beef upon us; they cry out thieves after us. CANT.
squeak
An escape. Generally used with regard to the avoidance of casualties. Among thieves, too, a prisoner acquitted after a hard trial is said to have had "a narrow SQUEAK for it."
squeak on a person
To inform against, to peach.
squeaker
A bar-boy; also a bastard or any other child. To stifle the squeaker; to murder a bastard, or throw It into the necessary house.--Organ pipes are likewise called squeakers. The squeakers are meltable; the small pipes are silver. CANT.
squeal
To inform, to peach. A North country variation of squeak; SQUEALER, an informer, also an illegitimate baby.
squeeze
Silk; also, by a very significant figure, a thief’s term for the neck.
squeeze crab
A sour-looking, shrivelled, diminutive fellow.
squeeze one out
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
squeeze wax
A good-natured foolish fellow, ready to become security for another, under hand and seal.
squelch
A fall. Formerly a bailiff caught in a barrack-yard in Ireland, was liable by custom to have three tosses in a blanket, and a squelch; the squelch was given by letting go the corners of the blanket, and suffering him to fall to the ground. Squelch-gutted; fat, having a prominent belly.
squib
A small satirical or political temporary jeu d'esprit, which, like the firework of that denomination, sparkles, bounces, stinks, and vanishes.
squib
A jeu d’esprit, which, like the firework of that denomination, sparkles, bounces, stinks, and vanishes.—Grose. Generally used in reference to political and electioneering attacks of a smart kind, which sting for a moment and are then forgotten.
squiffy
Slightly inebriated.
squinny
A chipmunk.
squinny-eyed
Said of one given to squinting.—Shakspeare.
squint like a bag of nails
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
squint-a-pipes
A squinting man or woman; said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunday; or born in a hackney coach, and looking out of both windows; fit for a cook, one eye in the pot, and the other up the chimney; looking nine ways at once.
Squire Dun
The hangman between Richard Brand m and Jack Ketch. And presently a halter got, Made of the best strong hempen teer; And, ere a cat could lick his ear, Had tied him up with as much art As Dunn himself could do for 's heart.
squire of alsatia
A weak profligate spendthrift, the squire of the company; one who pays the whole reckoning, or treats the company, called standing squire.
squire of dames
Any cavalier who is devoted to ladies. Spenser, in his Faerie Queene, introduces the "squire," and records his adventures.
squirrel
A prostitute: because she like that animal, covers her back with her tail. Meretrix corpore corpus alit. Menagiana, ii. 128.
squirrels in the attic
Unconventional or unorthodox ideas in one's mind
squirt
A doctor, or chemist.
squish
Marmalade.
squish
Common term among University men for marmalade.
squish mitten
The vagina.
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