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Entries releated to BRANDY

 

BAPTIZED, OR CHRISTENED		Rum, brandy, or any other spirits, that have been lowered with water.
BINGO		Brandy or other spirituous liquor.
BLOWER		A pipe. How the swell funks his blower and lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman makes with his pipe, and drinks brandy.
BRANDY		Brandy is Latin for a goose; a memento to prevent the animal from rising in the stomach by a glass of the good creature.
BRANDY-FACED		Red-faced, as if from drinking brandy.
BUMBO		Brandy, water, and sugar; also the negro name for the private parts of a woman.
CONNY WABBLE		Eggs and brandy beat up together. IRISH.
COOL LADY		A female follower of the camp, who sells brandy.
COOL NANTS		Brandy.
FLIP		Small beer, brandy, and sugar: this mixture, with the addition of a lemon, was by sailors, formerly called Sir Cloudsly, in memory of Sir Cloudsly Shovel, who used frequently to regale himself with it.
FRENCH CREAM		Brandy; so called by the old tabbies and dowagers when drank in their tea.
HOT POT		Ale and brandy made hot.
HUCKLE MY BUFF		Beer, egg, and brandy, made hot.
HUMPTY DUMPTY		A little humpty dumpty man or woman; a short clumsy person of either sex: also ale boiled with brandy.
LINE OF THE OLD AUTHOR		A dram of brandy.
MOONSHINE		A matter or mouthful of moonshine; a trifle, nothing. The white brandy smuggled on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, and the gin in the north of Yorkshire, are also called moonshine.
PIG		Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. To pig together; to lie or sleep together, two or more in a bed. Cold pig; a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes, and leaving them to pig or lie in the cold. To buy a pig in a poke; to purchase any thing without seeing. Pig's eyes; small eyes. Pigsnyes; the same: a vulgar term of endearment to a woman. He can have boiled pig at home; a mark of being master of his own house: an allusion to a well known poem and story. Brandy is Latin for pig and goose; an apology for drinking a dram after either.
RED RIBBIN		Brandy.
ROGUES		The fourth order of canters. A rogue in grain; a great rogue, also a corn chandler. A rogue in spirit; a distiller or brandy merchant.
RUM NANTZ		Good French brandy.
SNAP DRAGON		A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins.
TAPE		Red tape; brandy. Blue or white tape; gin.
TWIST		A mixture of half tea and half coffee; likewise brandy, beer, and eggs. A good twist; a good appetite. To twist it down apace; to eat heartily.