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 soupente = loft); avoir un polichinelle dans le tiroir (= to have a Jack-in-the-box in the drawer); en avoir dans le ventre (= to have a belly-ful); avoir son tablier lève (= to have got one's apron up); avoir le mou enflé (= to be swelled in the soft); avoir avalé un pépin (= to have swallowed a seed); entrer dans l'infanterie (popular); avoir un député dans l'urne (popular); avoir une affaire cachée sous la peau (common); avoir mal au genou (= cf. to break one's knees); s'être fait arrondir le globe (popular); avoir un fédéré dans la casemate (common); se gâter la taille (= to spoil one's figure); avoir la maladie de neuf mois (common: cf. nine months' dropsy). Also une couleuvre or un chef-lieu d'arrondissement (= a pregnant woman).

German synonyms. Schwor or schwar (schwer = heavy).

Spanish synonyms. Arari; avari; barriga 'a boca; cambri; cambrobi; desembarcar; embarago.

3. (booksellers').—Costly.

4. (cricketters').—Rough; uneven: as applied to the ground.

Lumtum, subs. (American thieves').—A fashionable thief.

1882. McCabe, New York, 221. Altogether my first evening among the lumtums panned out well.

Lun, subs. (old).—(1) A harlequin.—Grose (1785). (2) A clown.—Matsell (1859).

Lunan, subs, (vagrants').—A girl. For synonyms see Titter. [From the Romany].

Luncheon reservoir, subs. phr. (common).—The stomach. For synonyms see Victualling Office.

Lung-box, subs. (common).—The mouth. For synonyms see Potato-trap.

Lungis, subs. (old).—An idle, lazy, fellow.

1592. Nashe, Summer's Last Will [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), viii. 53]. There is not, goodman lungis.

1602. Dekker, Satiro-mastix [Nares]. Knaves, varlets! What lungis! give a dozen of stools there.

Lungs, subs. (old).—See quot. 1755.

1610. Jonson, Alchemist. That is his fire-drake, his lungs, his zephyrus, he that puffs his coals.

1755. Johnson, Dicty., s.v. Lungs. Formerly a cant term for a person denoting a large and strong-voiced man, as Coles has observed; and also a chymical servant, a sort of underwork-*man in the art.

Lunkhead, subs. (American).—An ill-bred, ill-looking horse; a screw (q.v.).

Lunk-headed, adj. (American).—Senseless.

Luny. See Loony.

Lurch, subs. (old).—A cheat.

d. 1597. Peele, Jests, 619. The tapster having many of these lurches fell to decay.

1606. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins [Grosart (1886), ii. 52]. Betting, lurches, rubber, and such tricks.

1604. Middleton, Black Book [in Century]. All such lurches, gripes, and squeezes, as may be wrung out by the fist of extortion.