DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUNS 4. an easygoing fellow; one in the habit of asking favours (American college) 5. a very inferior horse (Australian slang) 6. a Black person (offensive) (American slang) 7. a variety performer who plays on several instruments (theatrical slang) 8. a mist, a fog; thick, close, foggy weather (dialect) 9. a mesh of a net (dialect) VERBS 1. to mock (obsolete) 2. to loaf or lounge about, to idle (dialect) 3. to play truant (dialect) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES of obscure origin 1604 - (a mesh of a net) Hastings Corporation Records in A Glossary of the Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex, William Cooper - shown below Dates for other definitions; 1848 - a donkey 1866 - mist, fog 1871 - a Black person 1891 - an inferior horse From: The Newcomes:
Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family By William Makepeace Thackeray Edited by Arthur Pendennis Volume I, 1854 Chapter XXX. A Retreat P. 296
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