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A disorder to which horses are extremely liable, particularly those of the subalterns of the army. This disorder is generally occasioned by remaining too long in one livery-stable or inn, and often arises to that height that it prevents their coming out at the stable door. The most certain cure is the unguentum aureum--not applied to the horse, but to the palm of the master of the inn or stable. N. B.
An exaggerated sense of one's own dignity, usefulness, importance, etc.
Coarser pieces abound in vulgarities and Slang expressions.
A hearty draught of liquor.
To drink. Saxon, SWIGAN.
Thieves who travel the country under colour of buying old shoes, old clothes, &c. or selling brooms, mops, &c. CANT.
To drink inordinately. SWILL, hog-wash. From which the verb has possibly been derived.—Norfolk.
"a good SWIM," a good run of luck, a long time out of the policeman’s clutches.—Thieves’ term. Among anglers "a good SWIM" is a good pitch for a part where fish are plentiful—that is, because a lot of fish keeping together are called a SWIM. Thus one who is in luck, is well connected, or is doing a good business, is said to be in a good SWIM.
to go against the majority or a strong opposition
To engage in a risky or competitive situation
A counterfeit old coin.
sperms
a container filled with water for swimming
One who obtains goods on credit by false pretences, and sells them for ready money at any price, in order to make up a purse. This name is derived from the German word SCHWINDLIN, to totter, to be ready to fall; these arts being generally practised by persons on the totter, or just ready to break. The term SWINDLER has since been used to signify cheats of every kind.
Although a recognised word in standard dictionaries, commenced service as a slang term. It was used as such by the poor Londoners against the German Jews who set up in London about the year 1762, also by our soldiers in the German war about that time. SCHWINDELN, in German, signifies to cheat.
To have one’s SWING is to have a full turn at anything.
to respond or react to something
To be attracted to or have relationships with both men and women.
to visit someone or someplace briefly while on the way to another destination
To try extremely hard or take a big risk to achieve something
to become accustomed to a situation or activity
to return to the original point or situation
to visit or pass through a place briefly
Large, huge, powerful. As a SWINGEING blow, SWINGEING damages, &c.
A great swinging fellow; a great stout fellow. A swinging lie; a lusty lie.
Navy slang for concocting a plausible yarn to enable one to malinger.
Gains and losses balance each other out
At cricket, to hit hard with a full swing of the bat. Most probably a condensation of "wipe swingeing" or "swinging wipe."
Purser's swipes; small beer: so termed on board the king's ships, where it is furnished by the purser.
Sour or small beer. SWIPE, to drink.—Sea.
(from SWIPES), intoxicated.
To flog, derived perhaps from the sound. Maybe, a corruption of SWITCH.
A pheasant; so called by the persons who sell game for the poachers.
Or SWITCHED, married.
to stop something from operating
to start something working or operating
Bisexual.
Drink, or any brisk or windy liquor. In North America, a mixture of spruce beer, rum, and sugar, was so called. The 17th regiment had a society called the Swizzle Club, at Ticonderoga, A. D. 1760.
An old epithet for brag and bluster; as a sword and buckler voice, sword and buckler men, etc.
a genre of fantasy films
a fantasy genre with magical and violent elements
A Scottish dance performed over two swords laid crosswise on the floor, or sometimes danced among swords placed point downwards in the ground : also a dance in which the men brandish swords and clash them together, the women passing under them when crossed.
To enlist in different regiments, and on receiving the bounty to desert immediately.
A custom anciently pre- vailed at the public-houses in Highgate to administer a ludicrous oath to all travellers who stopped there.
One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
Mathematics; also, a mathematician; as a verb, to work hard for an examination, to be diligent in one’s studies.—Army.
A groom.—Anglo-Indian.
To urinate.
The Mohammedans call him the chief of the four favoured angels, and the spirit of truth. Milton makes him chief of the angelic guards placed over Paradise.
A wig.
A wig.