cods
The scrotum. Also a nick name for a curate: a rude fellow meeting a curate, mistook him for the rector, and accosted him with the vulgar appellation of Bol--ks the rector, No, Sir, answered he; only Cods the curate, at your service.
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coffee and doughnuts
a typical combination of food and drink
Coffee and love taste best when hot (Ethiopian proverb)
Traditional English proverbial phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
coffee house
A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's ****; to go in and out and spend nothing.
coffee money
a small amount of money given to someone for services
coffee talk
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
coffee-shop
A watercloset, or house of office.
cog
The money, or whatsoever the sweeteners drop to draw in a bubble.
cog
To cheat at dice.—Shakspeare. Also, to agree with, as one cog-wheel does with another, to crib from another’s book, as schoolboys often do. This is called "cogging over."
cogged
Loaded like false dice. Any one who has been hocussed or cheated is sometimes said to have been COGGED.
cogue
A dram of any spirituous liquor.
cohog
A co-ed.
coil up
to curl up tightly, often in a resting or defensive position
coin
"to post the COIN"—sometimes "post the coal"—a sporting phrase meaning to make a deposit of money for a match of any kind.
coin purse
Testicles.
coin slot
Vagina.
coke
Cocaine.
coke dick
a condition where a man's penis shrinks due to excessive cocaine use
cokes
The fool in the play of Bartholomew Fair: perhaps a contraction of the word COXCOMB.
colbert bump
A significant increase in popularity or success after appearing on The Colbert Report
colcannon
Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a mortar, and then stewed with butter: an Irish dish.
cold
You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or advice to desist from an attempt. He caught cold by lying in bed barefoot; a saying of any one extremely tender or careful of himself.
cold as a wagon tire
Dead.
cold as a well-digger's arse
Very cold.
cold as a witch's kiss
Very cold.
cold as a witch's tit
Very cold.
cold as balls
Very cold.
cold as charity
An ironic allusion to unsympathetic benevolence.
cold as charity. (14th century)
Completely without warmth or kindness
cold as death
Very cold.
cold as ice
Very cold.
cold blood
A house licensed for the sale of beer "NOT to be drunk on the premises."
cold burning
A punishment inflicted by private soldiers on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of their mess laws; it is administered in the following manner: The prisoner is set against the wall, with the arm which is to be burned tied as high above his head as possible.
cold cash
Money that is readily available and spendable
cold chills
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cold chisel
A steel chisel made in one piece and so tempered that it will cut cold metal when struck with a hammer.
cold day in Hell
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cold fish
A person who is unemotional or unresponsive
cold hand
Someone who is unlucky or brings bad luck
cold hands, warm heart
Someone with a cold or unfriendly exterior has a kind interior
cold hard cash
Actual money, not credit or other forms of payment
cold iron
A bad omen.
cold meat box
A coffin.
cold meat cart
A hearse.
cold one
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cold pudding
This is said to settle one's love.
cold snap
A short period of cold weather
cold treatment
Deliberately ignoring or showing indifference to someone
cold turkey
to stop doing something suddenly and completely
cold without
An elliptical expression, meaning spirits mixed with cold water without sugar.
Cold-Bath Fields
A district of Clerkenwell, London, so called from the baths established there, in 1697, for the cure of rheumatism, convulsions, and other nervous disorders.
cold-blooded animals
As a rule, all invertebrate animals, and all fishes and reptiles, are cold-blooded, the temperature of their blood being about equal to the medium in which they live.
cold-drawn oil
Oil that is extracted or expressed without the use of heat. To have cold feet is to be timorous or cowardly. An expression originating in the U.S.A. in the 1890s.
cold-water ordeal
An ancient method of testing guilt or innocence. The accused, being tied under the arms, was thrown into a river.
Coldstream Guards
The second of the five regiments of Foot Guards.
cole
Money. Post the cole: pay down the money.
colfabias
A Latinized Irish phrase signifying the closet of decency, applied as a slang term to a place of resort in Trinity College, Dublin.
colgate
toothpaste
Colin Clout
A name which Spenser assumes in The Shepherd's Calendar, and in the pastoral entitled Colin Cloufs Come Home Again, which represents his return from a visit to Sir Walter Raleigh, "the Shepherd of the Ocean.'* Skelton had previously (about 1520) used the name as the title of a satire directed against the abuses of the Church ; he says :— And if ye stande in doute Who brought this ryme aboute, My name is Colyn Qoute.
Colin Tampon
The old nickname of a Swiss, as John Bull is of an Englishman, Brother Jonathan of a North American, and Monsieur Crapaud of a Frenchman.
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