Jack. - Horntip

Larrufiing.
1824. PEAKE, Americans Abroad,
i. 1. I'll LARRUP you till you can't stand,
if you hang chattering and stickling
behind after this fashion.
1841. Punch, 17 July, p. 5. Toby,'
says she, go and see the old gentleman ;
perhaps it might comfort him to LARRUP
you a little.'
1847. LYTTON, Lucretia, H. XX. ' I
wanted sum un to take care of the childern,
so I takes Peg into the 'ou3e. But
Lor ! how she LARRUPPED 'em—she has
a cruel heart.'
1854. DICKENS, Hard Times, v.
There was no rope-dancing for me ! 1
danced on the bare ground, and was
LARRUPED with the rope.' Ibid. He
tries to coax her into the stall to LARRUP
her.
1867. SMYTHE, Sailor's Word Book,
S.V. LARRUP, An old word, meaning to
beat a rope's end, strap, or colt.
LARRUPING, subs. (colloquial).—A
thrashing. Fr. la schlague.
1844. PEAKE, Court and City, i. 3.
I've a great mind to give you a good
LARR UPPING in the open park !
1860. Punch xxxix. p. 181. Ain't a
cove just a LARRUPIN' his wife up the
court.
1888. ROLF BOLDREWOOD, Robbery
Under Arms, xxi. 'Your father '11 give
you a fine LARRUPIN' if he comes home
and there's that cow lost.'
LARRY DUGAN'S EYE-WATER, subs.
phr. (old).—See quot.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.
LARRY DUGAN'S EYE-WATER, blacking.
Larry Dugan was a famous shoe-black
at Dublin.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
LASH, verb. (Blue Coat School).—
To envy. Usually used in the
imperative as a taunt.—BLANCH
(1877).
LASHINGS (or LASHINS), subs. (corn-
mon).—Plenty; abundance. Also
LASHIN'S AND LAVIN'S—plenty
and to spare.
159 Last-feather.
1841. LEVER, Charles O'Mallye,
lxvii. I'd as soon be myself as Lord
Mayor, With LASHINGS of drink on the
table.
150. F. E. SMEDLEY, Frank Fairlegh,
ch. xxii. A taste for, that is, an
unbounded admiration of, the sublime
and beautiful, as exemplified under the
form of—' Rum punch, and LASHINGS
of it,' chimed in Archer.
1855. THACKERAY, Lyra II/bernica,
'Mr. Malony's Account of the Ball.' A
rare buffet before them set Where LASHIN3
of good dhrink there was.
1892. MILLIKEN, 'Arry Ballads, 18.
Men patter in pubs about Jack, over
LASHING 0' lugs.
LASK, subs. (old).—See quot.
1621. BURTON, Anatomy (ed. 1893),
i. 304. A grave and learned Minister,
and an ordinary Preacher . . . was (one
day as he walked in the fields for his
recreation) suddenly taken with a LASK
or looseness, and thereupon compelled to
retire to the next ditch.
LASS IN A RED PETTICOAT, subs.
phr. (old).—See quot.
1767. RAY, Proverbs (ed. 1893), 59.
The 1 ASS IN THE RED PETTICOAT shall pay
for all . . . meaning a wife with a good
portion.
LAST COMPLIMENT, subs. pkr. (corn-
mon).—i. Burial.
1780. LEE, Chafiler of Accidents,
1. 2. Lord G. Why, then, does not
Hardy bring her up to you ? Gov. H.
Why, for two very sufficient reasons. In
the first place, that identical parson
PAID HIM THE LAST COMPLIMENT—that is,
buried him a twelvemonth ago.
2. (venery).—The sexual embrace.
Also LAST FAVOUR.
1694. CROWNE, Married Beau, ii.
I own common favours ; that's no matter,
But if she ever grants me the LAST
FAVOUR,—I give her leave to cast me off
for ever.
LAST-FEATHER, subs. (old.)—The
latest fashion.