单词 | whipperginnie |
释义 | † whipperginnien. Obsolete slang. 1. A term of reprobation or abuse applied to a woman. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused > female visenagec1460 bitch-clout?a1475 harlot?c1500 tarleather1575 whipperginnie1593 brach1612 city wire1616 she-dog1624 cunt1663 faggot1722 son of a bitch1936 1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 13 Shee fals so hot to scoulding with the whipperginne her ostice. 1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 21 That fornicators (after they had obtained their desires..) should..seeking other wenches, meet with whipper ginnies. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I3v What needst thou to care, whipper-Ienny, Tripe-cheeke? 2. the land of whipperginnie, apparently a nickname for purgatory. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > purgatory purgatory?c1225 purging place?c1425 the land of whipperginnie1594 repository1638 middle world1691 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D3 What newes from heauen, hell, and the lande of whipperginnie. 3. Name of an old card game. Obsolete exc. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1622 J. Taylor Great O'Toole in Wks. (1630) ii. 19/2 Thou hold'st it Valours ignominy, To spend thy dayes in peacefull whip her Ginny. 1629 J. Taylor Wit & Mirth xix, in Wks. (1630) 181/2 An vnhappy boy..would fall to Cards at the Cambrian game of whip-her-ginny, or English one and thirty. 1737 Poor Robin Dec. B 7 b Maw, Whip-her-jenny, Poor and Rich, With other fruitless Pastimes. 1923 R. Graves Whipperginny 45 The minds of these two princes Were of such subtlety and such nimbleness That Whipperginny on the fall of a card Changed to Bézique or Cribbage or Piquet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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