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 pion (Villon); un pilier de cabaret (= a pub-ornament); un pictonneur (picton = wine); un mannezingueur; un marchand d'eau chaude (= piss-maker); un marchand d'eau de javelle.

German synonym. Matto-*bolo (= a drunken pig: from the Gypsy matto = drunk).

Italian synonyms. Fransoso (= a Frenchman); chiaritore; chiaristante.

Spanish synonyms. Cuero (= a goat-skin bottle); colodra (= a wooden pail in which wine is measured and retailed); cuba (= a measure for wine); difunto de taberna (lit., a public-house corpse); odre (= a wine-skin); pellejo (= a wine-skin); peneque; potista; odrina (= an ox-hide bottle).

Dutch synonyms. Buisbalk; buiskinne or buizerik.

1826. The Fancy, i. 31. He is reported not to take sufficient care of himself: Lushington is evidently his master.

1840. Comic Almanack, 239. A blessed school of physic—half-and-half! The lushington of each young Doctor's Commons.

1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 68. They sell it at the public houses to the lushingtons.

1859. Matsell, 'A hundred stretches hence.' With all the prigs and lushingmen, A hundred stretches hence.

Lushy, adj. (common).—Drunk. For synonyms see Drinks and Screwed.

1819. Vaux, Memoirs, 188, s.v.

1821. Haggart, Life, 33. We met with a drover, quite lushy.

1821. The Fancy, 1, p. 303. At the Goat, as aforementioned, Ben Burn and Randall being both a little lushy.

1828. Maginn, from Vidocq, The Pickpocket's Chaunt. A regular swell cove lushy lay. To his clies my hooks I throw in, Tol, lol, etc.

1836. Dickens, Pickwick, xx. I was so uncommon lushy, that I couldn't find the place where the latch-key went in, and was obliged to knock up the old 'ooman.

1876. Hindley, Adventures of A Cheap Jack, 57. A lushy cove.

Lusk, subs. (old).—An idler. Also, luskish; as adj. = idle.

1531-47. Copland, Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous, l. 40. Boyes, gyrles, and luskish strong knaues.

b.1602. Lingua [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ix. 462]. Up, with a pox to you; up you lusk. [Note: lusk = idle, lazy, slothful. Minshew derives it from the French lasche, desidiosus].

Lust-proud. See Prick-proud.

Lustres, subs. (American thieves').—Diamonds.—Matsell (1859).

Lusty-Lawrence, subs. (old).—A good wencher; a performer (q.v.). Also lusty-guts.

1599. Porter, Two Angry Women [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vii. 295]. Well, lusty-guts, I mean to make ye stay.

1603-37. Breton, Mad Letters, [Grosart (1869), h. 33, 7, 12]. While lustie-guts and his best beloued were casting sheepes eyes at a cods head.

1621. Burton, Anat. (ed. 1892), ii. 40. Well fed like Hercules, Proculus and lusty laurence.

Lute, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms see Monosyllable.

1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, ii. 312. Her face like an angel, fair, plump, and a Maid, Her lute well in Tune too, could he but have plaid. Ibid. v. 4. Her white belly'd lute she set to his flute.

Lux, subs. (Blue-coat School).—A good thing; 'a splendid thing; e.g., My knife is wooston a lux.