| 单词 | to go to peckham |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to Peckham humorous. In phrases, chiefly referring to food. it's all holiday at Peckham: one has nothing to eat, or no appetite; (also) it is all over. to go to Peckham: to go to dinner.Recorded chiefly in dictionaries and glossarial sources. ΚΠ 1788 F. Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) at All Holiday It is all holiday at Peckham, or it is all holiday with him; a saying signifying that it is all over with the business or person spoken of or alluded to. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 134 Peckham (going to), dinner. ‘All holiday at Peckham’—no appetite. ‘No Peckham for Ben, he's been to Clapham,’ i.e. is indisposed, in a certain way. Peckish—hungry. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 198 Peckham, a facetious meaning of the name of this district, implying a dinner; ‘all holiday at Peckham’, i.e. nothing to eat. 1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 157/1 Peckham. To have (or spend) a holiday at Peckham, verb phr. (old)—To have nothing to eat. Going to Peckham = going to dinner. 1991 Times (Nexis) 10 July To have a holiday at Peckham is an old London saying meaning to go without a meal. This probably comes from a bad pun on to peck, as a chicken with its food, and peckish, hungry. < as lemmas |
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