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An extensive inlet in New South Wales, discovered by Captain Cook in 1770. It was the first place of his landing upon Australian soil, and Cook himself thus named it on account of the great variety of new plants found there. Botany Bay was wrongly applied as a name of the convict settle- ment established in 1788 at Sydney Cove. In contemporary parlance the name was applied not only to New South Wales but even to the whole of Australia.
A nick name for a taylor.
As like as two peas, or hairs; also, similar in disposition, taste, or trade, etc.
Parties involved in a conflict or negotiation
All aspects or viewpoints of a debate or discussion
Trouble or annoyance. Any one oppressed with business cares is said to be BOTHERED. "Don’t BOTHER," is a common expression. BLOTHER, an old word, signifying to chatter idly.
A convivial society.
Trouble, annoyance; "BOTHERATION to it!" "confound it!" or "deuce take it!"—an exclamation when irritated.
The joke is to ask a Botley man, "When are the assizes coming on?'* The reference is to the tradition that the men of Botley once hanged a man because he could not drink so deep as his neighbours.
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
To suppress or hide one's emotions
A deuce,—slang for twopence.
To suppress or hold back emotions
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.
drunk
Social and benevolent schemes, such as Utopia, Coleridge's Pantiso- cracy, the dreams of Owen, Fourier, St. Simon, the New Republic, and so on.
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.
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.
certainly or without doubt
Investing in undervalued stocks or assets at a low price
The most important or essential point
The most important or fundamental part of a situation
the final stage or last chance to take action
to reach the lowest or worst point
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
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.
The colic or bellyache.—Stable Slang. Burns uses it. See Death and Dr. Hornbook.
Bottom.
Conceited, swaggering.—Stable. An infant’s posteriors.—Nursery.
Flatulence.
Wide in the boughs; with large hips and posteriors.
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
Impudence, cheek. A showy swindler, a bully.
Recover quickly from a difficulty or setback
to rebound or reflect off something
To have excess energy and be very restless
Boastful.
Prone to bouncing or boasting.
Boastfully.
A large man or woman; also a great lie.
A person who steals whilst bargaining with a tradesman, a swindler, or a lie of more than ordinary dimensions.
A bottle; from the explosion in drawing the cork. CANT.
Completely committed to doing something
completely silenced or restrained
Certain to be something
certain or likely to do something
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.
A cut purse. CANT.--Formerly purses were worn at the girdle, from whence they were cut.
Praise and criticism received for something
A lignite found at Bovey Tracy, in Devonshire. Bow (bo) (AS. boga; connected with the O.Teut. beguan, to bend.
a traditional weapon
show excessive respect or try too hard to please someone
Born within sound of Bow bells. Said of a true cockney. St.
Show respect or surrender to someone or something
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Condescend to hear or listen (Ps. xxxi, 2).
To leave or withdraw from a situation
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
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.
The childish name for a dog; also a jeering appellation for a man born at Boston in America.