sandwich
Ham, dried tongue, or some other salted meat, cut thin and put between two slices of bread and butter: said to be a favourite morsel with the Earl of Sandwich.
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sandwich
A human advertising medium, placed between two boards strapped, one on his breast the other on his shoulders. A "toad in the hole" is the term applied to the same individual when his person is confined by a four-sided box. A gentleman with a lady on each arm is sometimes called a SANDWICH. The French phrase for this kind of SANDWICH, l’âne à deux pannières, is expressive.
sandy
A Scotsman.
sandy pate
A red haired man or woman.
sang
ginseng
sangaree
Rack punch was formerly so called in bagnios.
Sanger's Circus
This is one of the oldest — and at one time the best known — of the circuses on the road. It was formed from nothing by "Lord" George Sanger (1827-1911) who in 1871 pur- chased Astley's amphitheatre and menagerie, and about the same time leased the Agricultural Hall, Islington. He carried his big circus or sent subsidiary ones throughout the provinces and into Scotland, and "Sanger's Circus" became an established institution.
sanguinary james
A raw sheep’s-head. See BLOODY JEMMY.
sank work
Tailors’ phrase for soldiers’ clothes. Perhaps from the Norman SANC, blood,—in allusion either to the soldier’s calling, or the colour of his coat.
sankyu
thank you
Sans Culottides
The five complementary days added to the twelve months of the Revolutionary Calendar, each month being made to consist of thirty days. The days were named in honour of the sans culottes, and made idle days or holidays.
Sans Souci
Free and easy, void of care. It is the name given by him to the palace built by Frederick the Great near Potsdam (1747).
Sanskrit Panchatantra
The word is not a true name, but means "wise man" (Arab, bidbah), and was applied to the chief scholar at the court of an Indian prince.
Santa Casa
The reputed house in which the Virgin Mary lived at Nazareth, miraculously translated to Dalmatia, and finally to Italy. See LORETTO.
Santa Claus
A contraction of Santa Niko- laus (i.e. St. Nicolas), the patron saint in Ger- many of children. His feast-day is December 6th, and the vigil is still held in some places, but for the most part his name is now associated with Christmastide. The old custom used to be for someone, on December 5th, to assume the costume of a bishop and distribute small gifts to "good children.
santa's workshop
A place where many things are being made or prepared
Santos Dumont
Alberto Santos Dumont (1873-1932) was a Brazilian balloonist who, in 1901, won the Deutsch prize for flying from
sap
Or SAPSCULL, a poor green simpleton, with no heart for work.
sappy
Soft, foolish, namby-pamby, milk-and-watery. "It’s such a SAPPY book."
sapscull
A simple fellow. Sappy; foolish.
Saracens from Languedoc
In 808 he re- nounced the world, and died 812. He is usually represented as a mailed soldier.
saratoga chips
Potatoes sliced thin, while raw, and fried crisp. Sometimes called chipped potatoes, but more generally "chips.
Saratoga Trunk
A huge trunk, such as used to be taken by fashionable ladies to the watering place of that name in New York State.
Sarsen Stones
The sandstone boulders of Wiltshire and Berkshire are so called. The early Christian Saxons used the word Saresyn (i.e. Saracen, q.v.} as a synonym of pagan or heathen, and as these stones were popularly associated with Druid worship, they were called Saresyn (or heathen) stones. Robert Ricart says of Duke Rollo, "He was a Saresyn come out of Denmark into France.
satin
Gin; "a yard of SATIN," a glass of gin. Term used by females on make-believe errands, when the real object of their departure from home is to replenish the private bottle. With servants the words "tape" and "ribbon" are more common, the purchase of these feminine requirements being the general excuse for asking to "run out for a little while." See WHITE SATIN.
Saturday and Sunday
This measure was introduced into Wales in 1886 to compensate topers for the Sunday closing, and denved its name from John Roberts, M.P., author of the Sunday Closing Act.
saturn's tree
An alchemist's name for the Tree of Diana, or Philosopher's Tree
saturnian verses
A rude metre in use among the Romans before the introduction of Greek metres.
satyr
A libidinous fellow: those imaginary things are by poets reported to be extremely salacious.
sauce box
A term of familiar raillery, signifying a bold or forward person.
saucebox
A pert young person. In low life it also signifies the mouth.
sauced
Drunk.
saucer eyes
Big, round, glaring eyes. Yet when a child (bless me!) I thought That thou a pair of horns had'st got, With eyes like saucers staring.
saucer oath
When a Chinese is put in the witness-box, he says: "If I do not speak the truth may my soul be cracked and broken like this saucer." So saying, he dashes the saucer on the ground. The Jewish marriage custom of breaking a wineglass is of a similar character.
saunterer
An idle, lounging fellow; by some derived from SANS TERRE; applied to persons, who, having no lands or home, lingered and loitered about. Some derive it from persons devoted to the Holy Land, SAINT TERRE, who loitered about, as waiting for company.
sausage
A penis.
sausage jockey
A gay male.
sausage roll
A goal.
sausage wallet
The vagina.
sauso
A sausage.
save
To give part of one bet for part of another. A. and B. have backed different horses, and they agree that in the event of either one winning he shall give the other, say, £5. This is called "SAVING a fiver," and generally is done when scratchings and knockings-out have left the field so that one of the two speculators must be a winner.
save by the bell
Rescued from a difficult situation just in time
save for a rainy day
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
save it
Stop talking or save the information for later
save money
To set aside or keep money for future use
save one's breath
to stop talking because what you say will have no effect
save someone's face
Avoid embarrassing or humiliating someone
save someone's life
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
save something for a rainy day
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
save the day
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
save the furniture
To salvage what is most valuable or important in a difficult situation.
save-all
A kind of candlestick used by our frugal forefathers, to burn snuffs and ends of candles. Figuratively, boys running about gentlemen's houses in Ireland, who are fed on broken meats that would otherwise be wasted, also a miser.
saveloy
A sausage of bread and chopped beef smoked, a minor kind of POLONY, which see.
savings and loan
Financial institution providing savings accounts and mortgage loans
savoy who gave it him
It had but one eye, and "was mean in stature." Shibdiz* The Persian Bucephalus, fleeter than the wind. It was the charger of Chosroes II of Persia.
savvey
To know; "do you SAVVEY that?" Spanish, SABE. In the nigger and Anglo-Chinese patois, this is SABBY, "me no SABBY." It is a general word among the lower classes all over the world. It also means acuteness or cleverness; as, "That fellow has plenty of SAVVEY."
saw
A Bahamian.
saw
An old saw; an ancient proverbial saying.
saw
A term at whist. A SAW is established when two partners alternately trump a suit, played to each other for the express purpose.
saw logs
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
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