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Japan.
JAPAN, verb. (common).-r. To
ordain : To BE JAPANNED = to
take orders.
1756. Connoisseur, 29 Jan. Jack
. . . . sent me a very hearty letter,
informing me that he had been double
JAPANNED (as he called it) . . . . and
was the present incumbent of . . .
1811. Lex. Bal., S.V. JAPANNED
. . . to put on the black cloth, from
the color of the Japan ware which is
black.
1819. MooRE, Tom Crib, 5.
Lobsters will lie such a drug upon hand,
That our do-nothing Captains must all
get JAPANNED.
1852. BRISTED, Five Years in an
English University, 344. Many . . .
step . . . . into the Church without any
pretence of other change than in the
attire of their outward man, on being
JAPANNED, as assuming the black dress
and white tie is called in University
slang.
1879. JAMES PAYN, High
(Change of Views). He . . . . was
to be JAPANNED in a fortnight. That
was the expression which, I am grieved
to say, he used, in those unregenerate
days, for the ceremony of ordination.
2. (American thieves').--To
convert : TO BE JAPANNED = to
be converted.-MATsELL ( 85 9).
3. (common).-To black one's
boots. Fr. sabouler. Also to
JAPAN ONE'S TROTTER-CASES.
1712. GAY, Trivia, [quoted by
JoHNsoN]. And aids with soot the new
JAPANNING art.
1734. POPE, Satire, iii, 156. Prefer
a new JAPANNER to their shoes.
1755. JOHNSON, Eng. Diet., S.V.
JAPAN. To black and gloss shoes. A
low phrase.
1772. G. A. STEVENS, Songs Comic
and Satyrical, 171. With Courtier-like
bowing the shoe-cleaners call, And offer
their Brush, Stool and shining Blackball
: JAPANNING, your Honour ', these
Colourists plan ; And, really, some
Honours may want a JAPAN.
1837. DICKENS, Oliver Twist,
xviii. He applied himself to a process
which Mr. Dawkins designated as
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JAPANNING his trotter-cases. The
phrase, rendered into plain English,
signifieth cleaning his boots.
JAPANESE KNIFE-TRICK, subs. phr.
(common).-Eating with one's
knife.
JAPPERS. See JABERS.
JAPE, verb. (old).-To copulate.
Formerly (CHAucER)= to trifle ; to
scoff. For synonyms see GREENS
and RIDE.
1510. Hycke Scorner[DonsLEY, Old
Plays (1874), i. 171]. Nay, brother, lay
hand on him soon ; For he JAPED my
wife, and made me cuckold.
1530. PALSGRAVE. I JAPE a wench,
i.e. font and ie bistocque, it is better
to IAPE a wench than to do worse.
1540. LYNDSAY, Thrie Estaitis, in
Works (1879), ii. 23. line 324. There is
ane hundred heir sittand by That luiffis
GEAPING als weill as I.
c.1550. A. SCOTT, Poems (I82I),
p. 26. Sum gois so gymp in gyis Or
sche war kissit plane, Sche leir be JAPIT
thryis.
1568. Bannalyne MSS. [Hunterian
Club Rept. vi. 764]. The Vse of Court.'
His wyfe JAIPPIT, his siller spendit.
1572. GASCOIGNE, Councell . . . to
Master. . . 1Vithi15o11 (CHALMERS, ii.
533). First, in thy journey JAPE not overmuch.
1589. Putienham. Art of Eng. Poesic,
B. iii, ch. 22. Such wordes as may
be drawen to a foule and unshamefast
sense, as one that should say to a young
woman, I pray you let me JAPE with you,
which is indeed no more than let me
sport with you. . . . For it may be taken
in another perverser sense.
1598. FLORIO, Worlde of Worcles,
Fotiere, to JAIPE, etc.
6.1600. Grim the Collier etc.
[DoDsLEY, Old Plays (1874), Viii. 389].
Heard you not never how an actor's
wife, Whom he (fond fool) lov'd dearly
as his life, Coming in's way did chance
to get a JAPE.
1602. SPEGHT, in Wks. Of CHAUCER.
'Hard Words of Chaucer Explained', s.v.