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The quay in Paris running along the left bank of the Seine where are situated the departments of Foreign Affairs and other government offices. The name is applied to the French Foreign Office and sometimes to the French Government as a whole.
A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots; boots resembling a quail pipe, from the number of plaits; they were much worn in the reign of Charles II.
To be extremely frightened or intimidated
A lump of excrement.
A fake or decoy weapon
Dummy guns made of wood, for drill purposes or camouflage; an allusion to the Quaker reprobation of the use of force.
A religious sect so called from their agitations in preaching.
Gentry, the upper classes.
General well-being, including physical, emotional, and social aspects
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
To be in a quandary: to be puzzled. Also one so over-gorged, as to be doubtful which he should do first, sh--e or spew. Some derive the term quandary from the French phrase qu'en dirai je? what shall I say of it? others from an Italian word signifying a conjuror's circle.
Described in the dictionaries as a "low word," may fittingly be given here. It illustrates, like "hocus-pocus," and other compound colloquialisms, the singular origin of slang expressions. QUANDARY, a dilemma, a doubt, a difficulty, is from the French, QU’EN DIRAI-JE?—Skinner.
to overcome a significant obstacle or challenge
Quarantine.
A glazier: from the small squares in casements, called CARREUX, vulgarly quarrels.
Un mauvais quart d'heure (Fr., a bad quarter of an hour), used of a short, disagreeable experience.
Divided into four parts; to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, is the sentence on traitors and rebels. Persons receiving part of the salary of an office from the holder of it, by virtue of an agreement with the donor, are said to be quartered on him. Soldiers billetted on a publican are likewise said to be quartered on him.
A farthing.
A farthing.—Gibraltar term. Italian, QUATTRINO.
Apparently historical; more or less so, or pretending to be so and almost succeeding.
The tenant of a house sublet. Quasimodo Sunday (kwa zi mo doO. The first Sunday after Easter; so called because the "Introit" of the day begins with these words: Quasi modo geniti infantes (1 Pet. ii, 2).
A slut, or worthless woman, a strumpet.
A strumpet. In Scotland, a lower-class woman. Saxon, CWEAN, a barren old cow.
A fund created out of the firstfruits and tenths which were part of the papal exactions before the Reformation. The firstfruits are the whole first year's profits of a clerical living, and the tenths are the tenth part annually of the profits of a living. Henry VIII annexed both these to the Crown, but Queen Anne formed them into a perpetual fund for the augmentation of poor livings and the build- ing of parsonages.
In the first part of her reign he wrote a laudatory poem to the queen, but he says that the latter part deluded his hopes and proved him a false prophet.
A slighting retort made to the teller of stale news.
The style in buildings, furniture, silver-ware, etc., characteristic of her period. Domestic architecture, for instance, was noted for many angles, gables, and ir- regularity of windows.
Paul's in 1708 to offer thanksgiving for the victory of Oudenarde, disaffected conspirators removed certain screw-bolts from the beams of the cathedral, that the roof might fall on the queen and her suite and kill them.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Your thumb to your nose and your fingers spread ; cocking a snook.
A dominant female in a group or situation
To the tune of the life and death of Queen Dick. That happened in the reign of Queen Dick; i.e., never.
Lioness, symbolizing power and strength
A queen who holds the crown in her own right, in contradistinction to a Queen Consort.
A mart governed by his wife, is said to live in Queen street, or at the sign of the Queen's Head.
Bancus Commmris, the bench of Common Pleas. Bandana or Bandanna (ban dan' a) . An Indian word (bandhnu, a mode of dyeing) now usually restricted to handkerchiefs of either silk or cotton having a dark ground of Turkey red or blue, with white or yellow spots. Bandbox, He looks as if he were just out of a.
November 17th, the day of the accession of Queen Elizabeth I, first publicly celebrated in 1570, and for over three centuries kept as a holiday in Government offices and at Westminster School.
Glazed Wedgwood earthen- ware of a creamy colour.
A fine day for a fete; so called because Queen Victoria was, for the most part, fortunate in having fine weather when she appeared in public.
The kiln in which all contraband tobacco seized by the Custom-house officers is burned.
An old cant word, once in continual use as a prefix, signifying base, roguish, or worthless,—the opposite of RUM, which signified good and genuine. QUEER, in all probability, is immediately derived from the cant language.
Out of order, without knowing one's disease.
Insolvent sharpers, who make a profession of bailing persons arrested: they are generally styled Jew bail, from that branch of business being chiefly carried on by the sons of Judah. The lowest sort of these, who borrow or hire clothes to appear in, are called Mounters, from their mounting particular dresses suitable to the occasion. CANT.
violence or harassment against someone because of their sexual orientation
Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade.
An odd, out-of-the-way fellow.
The master of a public-house the resort of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn or alehouse keeper.
Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of people in the house.
A putter off, or utterer, of bad money.
A maker of bad money.
A justice of the peace, or magistrate,—a very ancient term, mentioned in the earliest slang dictionary. In this sense, as well as in that of the verb just given, the term is evidently derived from quæro, to inquire, to question. Quiz and quis? have also an undoubted connexion.
A justice of the peace; also a churl.
An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted.
A strange or eccentric person
A bad pair of breeches.
A diseased strumpet. CANT.
A felt hat, or other bad hat.
Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each; and the supposed drowned persons, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.
A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer.
An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night cellars.