dog bone
a bone that is given to a dog to chew on and play with, similar to a dog biscuit. They can be real bones, or they can be made of other materials like plastic or leather
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Buffaloes, cats, fish, and the creatures carrying our metaphors.
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dog buffers
Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs with their flesh.
dog cheap
Or DOG-FOOLISH, very or singularly cheap, or foolish. Latham, in his English Language, says:—"This has nothing to do with dogs. The first syllable is god = good, transposed, and the second, the ch‑‑p, is chapman, merchant: compare EASTCHEAP."—Old term.
dog gone
A form of mild swearing used by boys.
dog in the hunt
Having a personal stake or interest in a situation
dog in the manger
Someone who prevents others from having something they themselves do not want.
dog latin
Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used by the lawyers in their pleadings.
dog my cats
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dog vane
A cockade. SEA TERM.
dog's life
a life of hardship and misery
dog's portion
A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer or dangler after women. See DANGLER.
dogs bark, cats meow
People often do what is typical of them
Dogs wags their tails, not as much to you as to your bread. (Strauss, 1994 p. 710)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
dog’s ears
The curled corners of the leaves of books, which have been carelessly treated. The use of this term is so common that it is hardly to be considered slang.
Donkey Kong
An uncivilized or ill-mannered person; a boor.
donkey, donkey dick
A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, intitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter.
eight eyes
I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that society, having eight eyes; viz. two seeing eyes, two bub-eyes, a bell-eye, two pope's eyes, and a ***-eye. He has fallen down and trod upon his eye; said of one who has a black eye.
everybody and their dog
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
f sharps
Fleas. Compare B FLATS.
feathered friend
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
fee, faw, fum
Nonsensical words, supposed in childish story-books to be spoken by giants. I am not to be frighted by fee, faw, fum; I am not to be scared by nonsense.
finders, keepers; losers, weepers
Synonym of finders, keepers.
fish lips
The vagina.
flay the fox
To vomit. Now replaced by the more popular "shoot the cat."
flogging cully
A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one.
forest puppy
Deer.
frig pig
A trifling, fiddle-faddle fellow.
fur and feathers
Everything and everyone
gallows bird
A grief, or pickpocket; also one that associates with them.
get your goat
To irritate someone.
gib cat
A northern name for a he cat, there commonly called Gilbert. As melancholy as a gib cat; as melancholy as a he cat who has been caterwauling, whence they always return scratched, hungry, and out of spirits. Aristotle says, Omne animal post coitum est triste; to which an anonymous author has given the following exception, preter gallum gallinaceum, et sucerdotem gratis fornicantem.
goodyer's pig
Like Goodyer's pig; never well but when in mischief.
Goose, gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing. (Strauss, 1994 p. 104)
Different aspects are essentially the same thing
ground squirrel
A hog, or pig. SEA TERM.
grunting peck
Pork, bacon, or any kind of hog's flesh.
guinea to a goose
A sporting phrase, meaning long odds in favour of, or against, anything under notice. In the City this state of things is represented by the phrase, Lombard Street to a China orange. There are also other colloquialisms on this subject, but their power is, as a rule, mainly dependent upon their indecency.
hair of the dog
A small amount of alcohol consumed to alleviate a hangover
have a tiger by the tail
to control something powerful and difficult to manage
heavy dragoons
Bugs, in contradistinction from fleas, which are "light infantry."—Oxford University.
hell cat
A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman. See TERMAGANT and VIXEN.
hen and chickens
Large and small pewter pots.
herd cats
to manage or organize a group of people who are difficult to control
horse's ass
a foolish or stupid person
horse's mouth
directly from the original or most reliable source
hump up
"to have one’s HUMP UP," to be cross or ill-tempered—like a cat with its back set up. See BACK and MONKEY.
hung beef
A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fellow with a bull's pizzle.
i'll hear it from the horse's mouth
Learn something directly from the original source
in twig
Handsome; stilish. The cove is togged in twig; the fellow is dressed in the fashion.
ivy bush
Like an owl in an ivy bush; a simile for a meagre or weasel-faced man, with a large wig, or very bushy hair.
jiggot o’ mutton
A leg of mutton. From Fr. GIGOT.
jingle boxes
Leathern jacks tipped with silver, and hung with bells, formerly in use among fuddle caps. CANT.
jolly dog
A merry facetious fellow; a BON VIVANT, who never flinches from his glass, nor cries to go home to bed.
kilkenny cat
A popular simile for a voracious or desperate animal or person, from the story of the two cats in that county, who are said to have fought and bitten each other until a small portion of the tail of one of them alone remained.
knappers poll
A sheep's head. CANT.
let the cat out
Or LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG, a common phrase, which implies that a secret is to be or has been let out.
like a bowl in a china shop
Eggcorn of like a bull in a china shop.
like a chicken with the pip
feeling sick or unwell
like shit through a goose
Very fast.
long one
A hare; a term used by poachers.
long-tailed beggar
A cat. The tale that hangs thereby runs thus:—A boy, during his first very short voyage to sea, had become so entirely a seaman, that on his return he had forgotten the name of the cat, and was obliged, pointing to puss, to ask his mother "what she called that ’ere LONG-TAILED BEGGAR?" Accordingly, sailors, when they hear a freshwater tar discoursing too largely on nautical matters, are very apt to say, "But how, mate, about that ’ere LONG-TAILED BEGGAR?"