62 definitions by Delbosco
Riley, you swore to me, you absofuckinglutely swore to me you weren't going to diddle around with the expense account this time!
by Delbosco October 14, 2021
I went into the dining-room, and sot down afore a plate that had my name writ on a card onto it; and I did walk into the beef and 'taters and things about east.
by Delbosco October 14, 2021
A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
by Delbosco October 15, 2021
She, with the greatest effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his shirt, draws out his affair, so shrunk and diminished that I could not but remember the difference, now cresfallen, or just faintly lifting its head.
by Delbosco October 15, 2021
A cuckold.
… but I had the story from some French officers of distinction, who mentioned the name of the injured and prudent husband, and that he was a person of very high rank. That name, however, even if I had not forgotten it, I should not think it fair to repeat, because it would seem to be a matter of some moment to the gentleman though he was an Acteon, not to be thought so.
by Delbosco October 14, 2021
A saying signifying that the business or person spoken of or alluded to is finished, i.e. that it has no future.
It is all holiday at Peckham.
by Delbosco November 13, 2021