squeal
To inform, to peach. A North country variation of squeak; SQUEALER, an informer, also an illegitimate baby.
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squeeze
Silk; also, by a very significant figure, a thief’s term for the neck.
squeeze crab
A sour-looking, shrivelled, diminutive fellow.
squeeze one out
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
squeeze wax
A good-natured foolish fellow, ready to become security for another, under hand and seal.
squelch
A fall. Formerly a bailiff caught in a barrack-yard in Ireland, was liable by custom to have three tosses in a blanket, and a squelch; the squelch was given by letting go the corners of the blanket, and suffering him to fall to the ground. Squelch-gutted; fat, having a prominent belly.
squib
A small satirical or political temporary jeu d'esprit, which, like the firework of that denomination, sparkles, bounces, stinks, and vanishes.
squib
A jeu d’esprit, which, like the firework of that denomination, sparkles, bounces, stinks, and vanishes.—Grose. Generally used in reference to political and electioneering attacks of a smart kind, which sting for a moment and are then forgotten.
squiffy
Slightly inebriated.
squinny
A chipmunk.
squinny-eyed
Said of one given to squinting.—Shakspeare.
squint like a bag of nails
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
squint-a-pipes
A squinting man or woman; said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunday; or born in a hackney coach, and looking out of both windows; fit for a cook, one eye in the pot, and the other up the chimney; looking nine ways at once.
Squire Dun
The hangman between Richard Brand m and Jack Ketch. And presently a halter got, Made of the best strong hempen teer; And, ere a cat could lick his ear, Had tied him up with as much art As Dunn himself could do for 's heart.
squire of alsatia
A weak profligate spendthrift, the squire of the company; one who pays the whole reckoning, or treats the company, called standing squire.
squire of dames
Any cavalier who is devoted to ladies. Spenser, in his Faerie Queene, introduces the "squire," and records his adventures.
squirrel
A prostitute: because she like that animal, covers her back with her tail. Meretrix corpore corpus alit. Menagiana, ii. 128.
squirrels in the attic
Unconventional or unorthodox ideas in one's mind
squirt
A doctor, or chemist.
squish
Marmalade.
squish
Common term among University men for marmalade.
squish mitten
The vagina.
St John of Nepumuk
Patron Saint of Bohemia, a priest who was drowned in 1393 by order of the brutal Wenceslaus IV, partly because he tried to restrain the licentiousness of the king, partly because he refused to reveal to him the confessions of the queen. Nepumuk, or Nepomuk is the French ne, born, and Pomuk, the village of his birth. His day is May 16th.
St. Hugh's bones
A shoemaker's tools.
st. martin’s lace
Imitation gold lace; stage tinsel.
stab
"STAB yourself and pass the dagger," help yourself and pass the bottle.—Theatrical Slang.
stab in the back
To betray someone's trust
stab in the dark
a guess made without much information
stab-rag
A regimental tailor.—Military Slang.
stack the cards
To arrange things to favor a particular outcome
stack up
to compare or compete favorably
stacked
Having large breasts.
staff of life
Something essential for survival
stag
To turn stag; to impeach one's confederates: from a herd of deer, who are said to turn their horns against any of their number who is hunted.
stag
A term applied during the railway mania to a speculator without capital, who took "scrip" in proposed lines, got the shares up to a premium, and then sold out. Caricaturists represented the house of Hudson, "the Railway King," at Albert Gate, with a STAG on it, in allusion to this term.
Stag in Christian art
The attribute of St. Julian Hospitaller, St. Felix of Valois, and St.
Stag Line
At American dances, a number of extra men guests who stand at the edge of the dance-floor, without partners, but having the privilege of breaking m on any dancing couple and claiming the girl as a partner.
stage business
Movements or actions performed by an actor to add meaning or interest
stage of the game
a particular point or phase in a situation
stage right
the area to the right of a stage from the actor's perspective
stage-door Johnny
A man who waits at a theater stage door to meet or flirt with performers
stage-whisper
One loud enough to be heard. From the stage "asides."
stagger
To surprise. "He quite STAGGERED me with the information."
staggering bob, with his yellow pumps
A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are yellow.
staggering-bob
An animal to whom the knife only just anticipates death from natural disease or accident,—said of meat on that account unfit for human food. Also a newly-born calf.
staircase wit
a witty response thought of after the moment has passed
stake a claim
to assert or establish a right or interest in something
stale drunk
Unevaporated fumes of liquor. A man is said to be STALE DRUNK when he has been drunk overnight, and has doctored himself with stimulants a little too much in the morning—when he has tried too many of the "hairs of the dog that bit him." If this state of things is long continued, it is often called "same OLD DRUNK," from a well-known nigger story.
stalking horse
A person or thing used to conceal someone's true intentions
stalking-horse
Originally a horse covered with loose trappings, under which the mediæval sportsman concealed himself with his bow, so as to approach his game unobserved. Subsequently a canvas figure, made light, so as to be easily moved with one hand. Now used to represent any bugbear persistently paraded; any constant and unpleasant reference to the possible consequences of an act.
stall
To lodge, or put up at a public-house. Also, to act a part.—Theatrical.
stall for time
Deliberately delay or prolong something to gain time
stall your mug
Go away; spoken sharply by any one who wishes to get rid of a troublesome or inconvenient person.
stall-off
To put off by means of a device, to misdirect purposely.
stalling
Making or ordaining. Stalling to the rogue; an ancient ceremony of instituting a candidate into the society of rogues, somewhat similar to the creation of a herald at arms. It is thus described by Harman: the upright man taking a gage of bowse, i.e. a pot of strong drink, pours it on the head of the rogue to be admitted; saying,--I, A.B. do stall thee B.C. to the rogue; and from henceforth it shall be lawful for thee to cant for thy living in all places.
stalling ken
A broker's shop, or that of a receiver of stolen goods.
stallion
A man kept by an old lady for secret services.
stallsman
Sometimes STALL, an accomplice.
stamp
A particular manner of throwing the dice out of the box, by striking it with violence against the table.
stampers
Shoes.—Ancient Cant.
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