Here you've been and gone three hours on an errand for me, and blank me if you ain't runnin' off without a word about it.—Bret Harte: Gabriel Conroy.
Because you're religious, blank you, do you expect me to starve? Go and order supper first! Stop! where in blank are you going?—Bret Harte: Gabriel Conroy.
"For blank's sake, sir, give me the orffice, you knows me surely, and that I'm square. Vell, then, give me the orffice, so help me blank I'll keep it dark."
Enter a closely-shaven, bullet - headed fellow in an ecstasy of excitement at having just seen Cuss, and at the exquisite "fitness" of that worthy. "So help my blank, blank!" he cries delightedly, "if he ain't a blank picter with the weins in his face down 'ere and 'ere, a showin' out just if a blank hartist 'ad painted him. Tell yer he's beautiful, fine as a blank greyhound, with a blank heavy air with him that looks blank like winnin. Take yer two quid to one, guv'nor?" adds the speaker, suddenly picking out a stout purple-faced farmer in the group of eager listeners.
Blanket, a lawful (old cant), a wife. The allusion is obvious.
Blanket hornpipe (popular) refers to the sexual intercourse.
Blanks (Anglo-Indian), a rare word used for whites or Europeans by themselves.
Blare (popular), to roar, to bawl.
He blared and he holloaed and swore he was hurt,
His coat got torn off and he hadn't a shirt,
Then the missus comes down and she said to the cook.
You audacious hussey, you'd best sling your hook.
Blarney (common), flattery; supposed to be derived from a stone in the tower of Blarney Castle, near Cork, the kissing of which is a feat of some difficulty, from its perilous position in the wall. It is supposed to confer the gift of eloquence, of a kind peculiarly adapted to win the hearts of women. It is a common saying in Cork, when a man is trying his powers of persuasion or wheedling, "he has been to Blarney Castle," or "none of your blarney."
Blast (popular), a familiar name amongst the lower orders for erysipelas of the face.
Blater (popular), a calf; to "cry beef on a blater," to make a fuss about nothing.
Don't be glim-flashy; why, you'd cry beef on a blater.—Lytton: Pelham.
Blather (general), idle nonsense. Also thin mud or puddle.
A prize-fighter who does not fight is about as valuable a machine as an alarum clock which does not go off. He has no raison d'être. We do not of course wish to insinuate that any of the "fistic marvels" of to-day are guilty of such conduct. And yet there may be those who watch "Mr." Johu L. Sullivan revolving round the provinces in a cloud of blather, who think the cap should fit.—Fair Trade.
Blatherskite (American), a man whose tongue runs away with him; an irrepressible noisy chatterer; "blathering." Of Scotch origin (vide Blethers).
Blaze (American). "To blaze a tree," to remove the bark so as
