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Slung. 3. (American College).—To recite badly; to fail; to bungle.

Slung. phr. (tailors').—Instantly dismissed.

'Slur, ''suos. verb.'' (B. E. and Grose).—1. 'A Cheat at Dice; also a slight Scandal or Affront.' Hence (2) to cheat.

1664. Butler, Hudibras, ii. What was the public faith found out for But to men out of what they fought for. Ibid., Remains, 'Misc. Thoughts.' Some flug'ring trick or

1680. Compleat Gamester, ii. —that is by taking up your dice as you will have them advantageously lie in your hand, placing the one atop the other, not caring if the uppermost run a millstone if the undermost run without turning.

Slush, subs. (nautical).—1. Food. Hence 2. (Grose) = a foul feeder: also (or ), see quot. 1890. Also 3 (old) = a drunkard.

1890. Argus, 20 Sept., 13, 6. Sundays are the most trying days of all, say the cuisiniers This man's assistant is called the

1896. Paterson, Man from Snowy River, 162. The tarboy, the cook, andthe  with the rest of theshearing horde.

4. (American journalists').—Indifferent matter; (q.v.).

Slut, subs. (old).—1. A dirty housewife; (2) = an awkward person or thing; (3) a wench (q.v.): cf. ; (4) a bitch. As verb. = to befoul; (also ) = neglect;  = (1) wanton; and (2)untidy.

14[?]. Babees Book [E. E. T. S.], 158. Crabbe is a to kerve, and a wrawd wight; Breke euery clawe a sondur.

1483., ''Cant. Tales,'' 'Prol. to Canon Yeoman's Tale,' 83. Why is thy lord so

1596., Merry Wives of Windsor, v. v. 50. Our radiant queen hates and

1615., Tobacco Battered. Don Tobacco's damnable Infection the Body.

1648. Herrick, Hesperides, 'Excesse.' Excesse is ; keepe the meane; for why? Vertue's clean conclave is sobriety.

1664., Diary, 21 Feb. Our little girl Susan is a most admirable , and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others. Ibid. (1665), 7 Nov. He carried his glass with him for his man to let him drink out of at the Duke of Albemarle's, where he intended to dine, though this he did to prevent

d. 1704. , Works, i. 338. The young never looked so gay and pleasant in her life.

1705., Confederacy, iii. 2. I have managed Master Gripe's little affairs for him these ten years, you, you!

1712., Spectator, No. 130. You see now and then some handsome young jades among them [gypsies]; the have very often white teeth and black eyes.

1862., Philip, xiii. I gave my cousin this dog and the little slut remembers me.

Sly, adj. and adv. (Grose).—'Under the rose; transacting business privately is frequently said to be done '; illicit: also = to escape, to evade.

c. 1787. Kilmainham Minit [IrelandSixty Years Ago, 88]. But if dat de slang you, The scrag-boy may yet be outwitted, And I scout again on de lay.

1851-61., ''Lon. Lab.'', i. 318. A trade's always the best for paying, and for selling too.

1871-2., Middlemarch, lxxviii. Selling myself for any devil's change

1887. Culture in the Slums. I keeps a dado