whistling dick

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• Whistling

  ·- ·adj & ·noun from Whistle, v. II. Whistling ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Whistle>>. ...

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• dick

  That happened in the reign of queen Dick, i. e. never: said of any absurd old story. I am as queer a...

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• whistling shop

  Rooms in the King's Bench and Fleet prison where drams are privately sold. ...

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• whistling duck

  n. See duck. The birdnamed below by Leichhardt appears to be a mistake; vide Gould'slist at word Du...

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• donkey dick

  A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, inti...

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• queen dick

  To the tune of the life and death of Queen Dick. That happened in the reign of Queen Dick; i.e., nev...

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• hell fire dick

  The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...

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• dick-a-dilver

  A name for the periwinkle on our eastern coasts. ...

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• Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick

  (1784-1848) Novelist and miscellaneous writer, s. of a Scottish baronet, wrote two novels, Lochandh...

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• whistling psalms to the taffrail

  Expending advice to no purpose. ...

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