FRENCH CREAM. Brandy; so called by the old tabbies
and dowagers when drank in their tea.FRENCH DISEASE. The venereal disease, said to have been
imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered
by a blow over the snout with a French faggot-stick;
i.e. he lost his nose by the pox.
FRENCH LEAVE. To take French leave; to go off without
taking leave of the company: a saying frequently applied
to persons who have run away from their creditors.
FRENCHIFIED. Infected with the venereal disease. The
mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected.
Whatever you do, do not go to meet someone who is named Frenchie, then.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)
SH-T SACK. A dastardly fellow: also a non-conformist.
This appellation is said to have originated from the
following story:--After the restoration, the laws against
the non-conformists were extremely severe. They
sometimes met in very obscure places: and there is a tradition
that one of their congregations were assembled in a barn,
the rendezvous of beggars and other vagrants, where the
preacher, for want of a ladder or tub, was suspended in
a sack fixed to the beam. His discourse that day being
on the last judgment, he particularly attempted to describe
the terrors of the wicked at the sounding of the trumpet,
on which a trumpeter to a puppet-show, who had taken
refuge in that barn, and lay hid under the straw, sounded
a charge. The congregation, struck with the utmost
consternation, fled in an instant from the place, leaving
their affrighted teacher to shift for himself. The effects
of his terror are said to have appeared at the bottom of
the sack, and to have occasioned that opprobrious appellation
by which the non-conformists were vulgarly distinguished.
SH-T-NG THROUGH THE TEETH. Vomiting. Hark ye,
friend, have you got a padlock on your a-se, that you sh-te
through your teeth? Vulgar address to one vomiting.
― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)