dummy spit
to lose one's temper or become extremely angry
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dump fencer
A man who sells buttons.
dump one's load
to share or express one's troubles or feelings
dumplin
A short thick man or woman. Norfolk dumplin; a jeering appellation of a Norfolk man, dumplins being a favourite kind of food in that county.
dumps
Down in the dumps; low-spirited, melancholy: jocularly said to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt, who died of melancholy. Dumps are also small pieces of lead, cast by schoolboys in the shape of money.
dun
To solicit payment.—Old Cant, from the French DONNEZ, give; or from JOE DIN, or DUN, a famous bailiff; or simply a corruption of DIN, from the Anglo-Saxon DUNAN, to clamour.
dunaker
A stealer of cows and calves.
duncombe’s
Flash Dictionary of the Cant Words, Queer Sayings, and Crack Terms now in use in Flash Cribb Society, 32mo, coloured print. 1820.
dunegan
A privy. A water closet.
dung
An operative who works for an employer who does not give full or "society" wages.
dung funnel
The anus.
dungaree
Low, common, coarse, vulgar.—Anglo-Indian. DUNGAREE is the name of a disreputable suburb of Bombay, and also of a coarse blue cloth worn by sailors.
dunghill
A coward: a cockpit phrase, all but gamecocks being styled dunghills. To die dunghill; to repent, or shew any signs of contrition at the gallows. Moving dunghill; a dirty, filthy man or woman. Dung, an abbreviation of dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors' wages, therefore deemed by the flints a coward. See FLINTS.
Dunheved Castle
See CASTLE TERABIL. Dunk, To. (U.S.A.). To dip bread, toast, or doughnuts in one's coffee.
dunkhorned
Sneaking, shabby. DUNKHORN in Norfolk is the short, blunt horn of a beast, and the adjective is applied to a cuckold who has not spirit to resist his disgrace.
dunkirk spirit
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dunky
A condom.
dunnage
Baggage, clothes. Also, a sea term for wood or loose faggots laid at the bottom of ships, upon which is placed the cargo.
dunny budgie
A blowfly.
dunnyken
Originally DANNAKEN, a watercloset.—From DANNA and KEN, which see.
dunton’s
Ladies’ Dictionary, 8vo. London, 1694.
dup is do up
Thus Ophelia says in one of her snatches, he "dupped the chamber door", i.e.
durance vile
A state of captivity or imprisonment
durandarte of this name
Mourning the fall of his master at Roncesvalles, he was turned into the river. See Don Quixote, ii, 23. Actu- ally, it is Arabic wadi, a river, and Anas> its classical name (Strabd).
durham man
Knocker kneed, he grinds mustard with his knees: Durham is famous for its mustard.
durrynacking
Offering lace or any other article as an introduction to fortune-telling; generally practised by women.
dusky dark
dusk.
dust
Money. Down with your dust; deposit the money. To raise or kick up a dust; to make a disturbance or riot: see BREEZE. Dust it away; drink about.
dust
Money; "down with the DUST," put down the money.—Ancient. Dean Swift once took for his text, "He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." His sermon was short. "Now, my brethren," said he, "if you are satisfied with the security, down with the DUST."
dust mouse
A small bundle of dust and fluff
dust off a batter
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dust settles
becomes clear after a confusing situation
dust-hole
Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge.—Univ. Slang.
dustman
A dead man: your father is a dustman.
dustoorie
Commission, douceur, bribe.—Anglo-Indian.
dusty
A phrase used in answering a question where one expects approbation. "What do you think of this?" "Well, it’s not so DUSTY," i.e., not so bad; sometimes varied to "none so DUSTY."
dusty miller
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dutch
wife
dutch
Or DOUBLE DUTCH, gibberish, or any foreign tongue. "To talk DOUBLE DUTCH backwards on a Sunday" is a humorous locution for extraordinary linguistic facility.
Dutch act
Suicide.
dutch auction
A method of selling goods, adopted by "CHEAP JOHNS," to evade the penalties for selling without a licence. The article is offered all round at a high price, which is then dropped until it is taken. DUTCH AUCTIONS need not be illegitimate transactions, and their economy (as likewise that of puffing) will be found minutely explained in Sugden (Lord St. Leonards) "On Vendors and Purchasers."
Dutch auction
An auction in which the auctioneer offers the goods at gradually decreasing prices, the first bidder to accept being the purchaser; the reverse process to that of an ordinary auction. Anyone can sell by Dutch auction, whereas an ordinary auction can be conducted only by a duly licensed auctioneer.
dutch comfort
Thank God it is no worse.
Dutch comfort
'Tis a comfort it was no worse. The comfort derivable from the con- sideration that how bad soever the evil which has befallen you, a worse is at least conceivable.
Dutch concert
A great noise and uproar, like that made by a party of intoxicated Dutchmen, some singing, others quarrelling, speechifying, wrangling, and so on.
dutch consolation
"thank God it is no worse." "It might have been worse," said a man whom the devil was carrying to hell. "How?" asked a neighbour. "Well, he’s carrying me—he might have made me carry him."
Dutch courage
The courage excited by drink; pot valour. The Dutch their wine, and all their brandy lose, Disarmed of that from which their courage grows; While the glad English, to relieve their toil, In healths to their great leader drink the spoil.
dutch feast
Where the entertainer gets drunk before his guest.
Dutch gleek
Tippling. Gleek (q.v.) is a game, and the phrase implies that the game loved by Dutchmen is drinking.
Dutch gold
Deutsche or German gold. An alloy of copper and zinc, invented by Prince Rupert of Bavaria.
Dutch nightingales
Frogs. Similarly, Cam- bridgeshire nightingales; Liege nightingales, etc.
Dutch pink
Blood.
Dutch reckoning
a bill or account with exaggerated or false charges
Dutch settlers
It is now the uptown section o*f New York and is the metropolis of the Negro population of the city.
Dutch treat
A meal, amusement, etc., at which each person pays for himself.
dutch uncle
A personage often introduced in conversation, but exceedingly difficult to describe; "I’ll talk to him like a DUTCH UNCLE!" conveys the notion of anything but a desirable relation.
dutchess
A woman enjoyed with her pattens on, or by a man-in boots, is said to be made a dutchess.
dutty
dirty
duty calls
One must attend to their responsibilities or obligations.
dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
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