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 1901. Sporting Times, 27 Ap., 2, 1. The advent of the stink-car was almost as mournful a feature in the proceedings as was the mob of habitual bookmakers "resting" by the bars.

Stinkfinger. To play at stinkfinger, verb. phr. (venery).—To grope a woman; 'to go birds-nesting' (q.v.).

Stinkibus, subs. (old).—Bad lap (q.v.); rot-gut (q.v.).

1706. Ward, Wooden World, 70. He shall gulph thee down the rankest stinkibus with as good a Gusto as a Teague does Usquebaugh, and not be a Doit the worse for it.

Stinking fish. To cry stinking fish, verb. phr. (common).—To run down one's own affairs; 'to foul one's own nest' (Ray).

Stinkious, subs. (old).—Gin: 18th century.

Stinkomalee, subs. (obsolete).—See quot.

1864. Hotten, Slang Dict., s.v. Stinkomalee, a name given to the then New London University by Theodore Hook. Probably because some cow-houses and dunghills stood on the original site. Some question about Trincomalee was agitated at the same time. It is still applied by the students of the old Universities, who regard it with disfavour from its admitting all denominations.

Stinky, subs. (military).—A farrier.

Stipe, subs. (common).—A stipendiary magistrate.

Stir, subs. (thieves').—A prison: also stiraben (gypsy).

1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., 1. 469. I was in Brummagen, and was seven days in the new stir.

1897. Marshall, Pomes, 123. I didn't hear the reason why the lad was booked for stir.

1901. Referee, 28 Ap., 9, 3. Mr. Patrick M'Hugh, M.P. for North Leitrim, has gone to stir for six months for a seditious libel.

2. (common).—A crowd; a push (q.v.).

to have plenty to stir on, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be wealthy.

See Stumps.

Stirrup-oil, subs. phr. (old).—A sound beating; a drubbing.

1677. Coles, Eng.-Lat. Dict. To give one some stirrup-oyl. Aliquem fustigare.

Stir-up-Sunday, subs. phr. (clerical).—The Sunday before Advent. [The collect for the day commences: 'Stir up, we beseech Thee, O Lord.']

Stitch, subs. (old).—1. A tailor: see Trades (B. E. and Grose).

2. (common).—Clothing: e.g., 'not a dry stitch about her.'

1888. Field, 4 Ap. With every stitch of clothing wet, and no facilities for drying them.

Phrases.—To go through stitch = to accomplish, to bring to a finish; to go a good stitch = to go a good way; stop stitch while I put a needle in = a proverbial phrase applied to any one when one wishes him to do anything more slowly (Halliwell).

1611. Cotgrave, Dict. s.v. Passe-partout, a resolute fellow, one that goes through-stitch with every thing hee undertakes, one whose courses no danger can stop, no difficultie stay.

1631. Chettle, Hoffman, f. iii. Now wee are in, wee must goe through stitch.

1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, 1. xlvii. And in regard of the main point that they should never be able to go through stitch with that war.

1677. Coles, Dict. To go thorow-stitch with the work, opus perage.