A soubriquet often applied to Irishmen, in jocular allusion to their Milesian (!) origin.
·noun A swindler; a knave; a cheat. II. Greek ·adj Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecia...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between "Greek" and "Grecian" (q.v....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
St. Giles's Greek; the slang lingo, cant, or gibberish. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·add. ·- The Julian calendar, used in the Greek Church. II. Greek calendar ·add. ·- Any of various ...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Greek kalends. ...
·add. ·- A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. ...
·add. ·noun A member of a body of French painters (F. les neo-Grecs) of the middle 19th century. The...
At the north-east corner of Little Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O.S. 1880). ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.