bottle up
To suppress or hold back emotions
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bottle-holder
Originally a term in prize ring parlance for the second who took charge of the water-bottle, which was an essential feature in all pugilistic arrangements. This second used to hold the combatant on his knee between the rounds, while the other or principal second sponged, instructed, and advised; an abettor; also the bridegroom’s man at a wedding.
bottled
drunk
bottled moonshine
Social and benevolent schemes, such as Utopia, Coleridge's Pantiso- cracy, the dreams of Owen, Fourier, St. Simon, the New Republic, and so on.
bottom
A polite term for the posteriors. Also, in the sporting sense, strength and spirits to support fatigue; as a bottomed horse. Among bruisers it is used to express a hardy fellow, who will bear a good beating.
bottom
Stamina in a horse or man. Power to stand fatigue; endurance to receive a good beating and still fight on. "A fellow of pluck, sound wind, and good BOTTOM is fit to fight anything." This was an old axiom among prize fighters. Pierce Egan was very fond of the word.
bottom dollar
certainly or without doubt
bottom fishing
Investing in undervalued stocks or assets at a low price
bottom line
The most important or essential point
bottom of the line
The most important or fundamental part of a situation
bottom of the ninth
the final stage or last chance to take action
bottom out
to reach the lowest or worst point
bottom the house
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Bottom the Weaver
A man who fancies he can do everything, and do it better than any- one else. Shakespeare has drawn him as profoundly ignorant, brawny, mock heroic, and with an overflow of self-conceit. He is in one part of Midsummer Night's Dream represented with an ass's head, and Titania, queen of the fairies, under a spell, caresses him as an Adonis.
botts
The colic or bellyache.—Stable Slang. Burns uses it. See Death and Dr. Hornbook.
botty
Bottom.
botty
Conceited, swaggering.—Stable. An infant’s posteriors.—Nursery.
botty burp
Flatulence.
boughs
Wide in the boughs; with large hips and posteriors.
bought friends are not friends indeed
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
bounce
Impudence, cheek. A showy swindler, a bully.
bounce back
Recover quickly from a difficulty or setback
bounce off
to rebound or reflect off something
bounce off the walls
To have excess energy and be very restless
bounceable
Boastful.
bounceable
Prone to bouncing or boasting.
bounceably
Boastfully.
bouncer
A large man or woman; also a great lie.
bouncer
A person who steals whilst bargaining with a tradesman, a swindler, or a lie of more than ordinary dimensions.
bouncing cheat
A bottle; from the explosion in drawing the cork. CANT.
bound and determined
Completely committed to doing something
bound and gagged
completely silenced or restrained
bound to be something
Certain to be something
bound to do something
certain or likely to do something
bounder
A four-wheeled cab. Because of its jumping motion over the stones. Also a University term for a TRAP, which generally has a very rough time of it on the country roads.
boung nipper
A cut purse. CANT.--Formerly purses were worn at the girdle, from whence they were cut.
bouquets and brickbats
Praise and criticism received for something
Bovey Coal
A lignite found at Bovey Tracy, in Devonshire. Bow (bo) (AS. boga; connected with the O.Teut. beguan, to bend.
bow and arrow
a traditional weapon
bow and scrape
show excessive respect or try too hard to please someone
Bow Bells
Born within sound of Bow bells. Said of a true cockney. St.
bow down
Show respect or surrender to someone or something
bow down before the porcelain god
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
bow down thine ear
Condescend to hear or listen (Ps. xxxi, 2).
bow out
To leave or withdraw from a situation
bow-legged wi' brass
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Bow-street Runners
Detectives who scoured the country to find criminals, before the introduction of the police force. Bow Street, near Covent Garden, is where the principal London police-court stands.
bow-wow
The childish name for a dog; also a jeering appellation for a man born at Boston in America.
bow-wow shop
A salesman's shop in Monmouth-street; so called because the servant barks, and the master bites. See BARKER.
Bow-wow Word
A word in imita- tion of the sound made, as hiss, cackle,, murmur, cuckoo, etc. Hence the bow-wow school, a term applied in ridicule to philologists who sought to derive speech and language from the sounds made by animals. The terms were first used by Max Muller.
bowdlerization
A term used in literary circles to signify undue strictness of treatment caused by over-modesty in editing a classic. To BOWDLERIZE is to emasculate through squeamishness. From the name (Bowdler) of one of Shakspeare’s "purifiers."
Bowels of Mercy
Compassion, sympathy. The affections were at one time supposed to be the outcome of certain secretions or organs, as the bile, the kidneys, the heart, the head, the liver, the bowels, the spleen, and so on. Hence such words and phrases as melancholy (black bile); the Psalmist says that his reins* or kidneys, instructed him (Ps.
bower anchor
An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. There are two: one called the best bower, and the other the small bower.
Bower of Bliss
In Spenser's Faerie Queene (Bk. II) the beautiful enchanted home of Acrasia.
Bowie Knife
A long, stout knife with a horn handle and a curved blade some 15 m. long and H in. wide at the hilt, carried by hunters in the Western States of America. So called from Colonel James Bowie (d. 1836), one of the most daring characters m the States.
bowl a googly
To surprise or deceive someone with an unexpected action
bowl of cherries
A very pleasant or enjoyable situation
bowl over
to surprise or impress someone very much
bowl up
to arrive or appear suddenly and unexpectedly
bowlas
Round tarts made of sugar, apple, and bread, sold in the streets, especially at the East-end of London.
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