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Brewer's: Sugar and Honey
Rhyming slang for “money.” (See Chivy.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sugared WordsSugar-lip A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…Brewer's: Tuffet
(A). A small tuft or clump. Strange that this word, so universally known, has never been introduced into our dictionaries, to the best of my knowledge. Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet…Brewer's: Veni, Sanote Spiritus
A Latin hymn in rhyme, ascribed to Robert, King of France; also to Archbishop Langton. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Veni, Vidi, ViciVeni, Creator…Brewer's: Malherbe's Canons of French Poetry
(1) Poetry is to contain only such words as are in common use by well-educated Parisians. (2) A word ending with a vowel must in no case be followed by a word beginning with a vowel. (3)…Brewer's: Gull
(rhymes with dull). A dupe, one easily cheated. (See Bejan.) The most notorious geck and gull That e'er invention played on. Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, v. 1. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Chriss-cross Row
(row to rhyme with low). The alphabet in a horn-book, which had a cross at the beginning and end. Philosophy is all the go, And science quite the fashion; Our grandams learnt the Chriss-…Brewer's: Cutler's Poetry
Mere jingles or rhymes. Knives had, at one time, a distich inscribed on the blade by means of aqua fortis. Whose posy was For all the world like cutler's poetry Upon a kuife. Shakespeare…Brewer's: Amphion
is said to have built Thebes by the music of his lute, which was so melodious that the stones danced into walls and houses of their own accord. Tennyson has a rhyming jeu d'esprit.…Brewer's: Snake in the Grass
A secret enemy; an enemy concealed from sight. Rhyming slang, “a looking-glass.” “Latet anguis in herba.” Virgil. Eclogue iii. 93. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Parish Registers
Bills of mortality. George Crabbe, author of The Borough, has a poem in three parts, in ten-syllable verse with rhymes, entitled The Parish Register. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Trending
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