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 1851-61. H. Mayhew, London Lab. & Lon. Poor, i. 187. I was out of work two or three weeks, and I certainly lushed too much.

1864. Eton School Days, viii. 'Gents, will yer please to lush?' inquired Bird's-eye, with a suavity of manner peculiar to himself.

1888. J. Runciman, The Chequers, 80. Ain't I lushed you?

1891. J. Newman, Scamping Tricks, 94. I had a lot of militia chaps, and well paid and lushed them.

1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, p. 17. A workman well lushed shies his 'at for the Queen.

Lushborough, subs. (old).—See quots.

1362. Langland, Piers Plowman, xv. 342. In lussheborwes is a lyther alay, and yet loketh he lyke a sterlynge.

1383. Chaucer, Cant. Tales [Skeat (1894), iv. 243, 3152]. God woot, no lussheborghes payen ye!

1661. Blount, Nomolexicon, s.v. A brass coyn in the days of Edward III.

1894. Skeat, Chaucer, v. 225. Note to line 3152. Lussheburghes, light coins spurious coins imported into England from Luxembourg, whence the name. The importation of this false money was frequently forbidden, viz. in 1347, 1348, and 1351.

Lush-crib (or ken), subs. (common).—See quot. 1819.

English synonyms. Ale draper's; black-house; boozer; budging-ken; church; cold-blood house; confectionery; cross-dram; devil's-house; dive; diving-bell; drum; flash-case (-drum, -ken, or -panny); flat-iron; flatty-ken; gargle-factory; gin-mill; grocery; groggery; grog-shop; guzzle-crib; jerry-shop; hash-shop; hedge-house; kiddly-wink; little church round the corner; lush-house (-panny, or -ken); lushery; mop-up; mug-house; O-be-joyful works; panny; patter-crib; piss-factory; pot-house; pub (or public) red-lattice; roosting-ken; rum-mill; shanty; shebeen; side-pocket; sluicery; suck-casa; tippling-shop; Tom-and-Jerry-shop; whistling-shop; wobble-shop.

French synonyms. Un abreuvoir (= a watering-place); un assommoir (a knock-me-down shop); une bibine (rag-pickers'); une bouffardière (common: bouffard = pipe or weed [q.v.]); un bousin (also = shindy); un bousingot (popular); une buverie (Old Fr.); un cabermon (thieves': from cabaret); un caboulot (popular); une cambuse (nautical = store-room); une chapelle (popular: cf. church); une goguette (common); une guinche (common); un malzingue (thieves'); une mine à poivre (poivre = brandy); un mintzingue (popular); le notaire (= also taverner); une piolle (also = ken [q.v.]); une filature à poivrots (= a manufactory of Lushingtons [q.v.]); un rideau rouge (cf. red-lattice).

German synonyms. Aules (also = pitcher); Baisel (also = brothel and pitcher); Chessenkitt, Chessenpenne, Chessenspiesse (thieves'); Finkel (also = thieves' kitchen); Kessefinkel (thieves'); Katschäume (trom gypsy tschemika); Molun or Maline (Heb. lun: Chessenmaline = common lodging-house); Spiese (from Ospes = Lat. hospes); Penne (Heb. pono); Plattpenne, Plattspiesse, Plattebajis, Plattbes (also = intercourse with thieves'); Serafbajis (Heb. soraf); Schocherskitt (Heb. schechor from schochar); Schlederhaus (from