Jack. - Horntip

Mrs. Goff. 369 Mrs. Parting/on.
MRS. GOFF, subs. phr. (American
University).—A woman. For syn-
onyms see PETTICOAT.
MRS. GRUNDY, subs.phr. (common).
—A personification of respectability.
See quots. 1849 and 1855.
[From a character in Speed the
Plough, see quot. 1 7 98].
1798. J. MORTON, Sfieed the Plough,
i. 1. Be quiet woolye ? always ding,
dinging DAME GRUNDY into my ears—
What will MRS. GRUNDY say ? What
will MRS. GRUNDY think ?
1849. Lv -rroN, Caxions, Pt. xv.
ch. iii. I have hit upon a mode of
satisfying the curiosity of our friend
MRS. GRUNDY—that is, the World '—
without injury to any one.
1855. THACKERAY, NeWCOMeS,
What will Richmond, what will
society, what will MRS. GRUNDY in
general say to such atrocious behaviour ?'
1891. Tales from Town Tofiics,
How a Shell Broke the Ice,' p. 39.
Come in ; MRS. GRUNDY has run away
from Paris long ago.
MRS. HARRIS and MRS. GAMP, subs.
phr. (Fleet St.).—The Morning
Herald and The Standard
under the proprietorship of Mr.
Baldwin. [Cf. DICKENS, Martin
Chuzzlewit, passim].
1846. Punch, x. p. if. It is a
fact—and as the evening MRS. HARRIS
says, we will stake our reputation upon
it—that MRS. GAMP of the Herald did,
one day last week, write, that is scold,
a leader about Lord John Russell, and
did not quote Sydney Smith !
1885. Punch, 8 August. The
Standard figures as Sairey Gamp '
scolding—in allusion to a recent article
in the S. abusing Lord Randolph
Churchill.
MRS. JONES, subs. phr. (common).
—A water-closet.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Bog;
bog-shop (or -house) ; cacatorium ;
chapel (or chapel-of-ease); coffee-
shop (or -house) ; colfabias; crapping-castle
(-case, -casa, -house, or
-ken) ; draught-chapel; dunnakin ;
Forty-two ; fourth ; gong ; House
of Commons ; house-of-office ;
jakes ; letter-box ; the Long (University);
my aunt's ; necessaryhouse
; quaker's burying-ground ;
place (or house)-of-ease ; rear ;
shit-house ; Sir Harry ; the West
Central ; where the Queen goes
on foot (or sends nobody).
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Madame
Bernard (cf. MRS. JONES) ; le
bzien-retiro (popular); chez Jules;
le goguenazt(gogueno or gogztenot—military)
; le gras (thieves' :
cf. BOG) ; le
longchamps (cf.
LONG); la mousserie (thieves') ;
le nunzbro cent (popular: a play
on sent); le restaurant a rozvers
(common) ; la sacris tie (cf.
CHAPEL).
MRS. LUKEY PROPS, subs. (tramps').
—A bawd.
MRS. PARTINGTON, subs.phr. (col-
loquial).—A personification of impotent
and senile prejudice. Also,
a kind of Malaprop.
1831. SYDNEY SMITH, ' Speech at
Taunton.' I do not mean to be disrespectful;
but the attempt of the lords
to stop the progress of reform reminds me
very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth,
and the conduct of the excellent
Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the
winter of 1824, there set in a great flood
upon that town ; the tide rose to an incredible
height ; the waves rushed in upon
the houses; and everything was threatened
with destruction. In the midst of this
sublime storm, Dame Partington, who
lived upon the beach, was seen at the
door of her house with mop and pattens,
trundling her mop, squeezing out the seawater,
and vigorously pushing away the
Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused;
Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I
need not tell you that the contest was
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