‘like v. 1 . . 1.c. to like well or ill : to be pleasing or the reverse. . . 1667 Milton Paradise Lost vi. 353 They..colour, shape or size Assume, as likes them best. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 22 Nov. (1976) IX. 372 My boy's Livery is come home..and it likes me well enough . . 1832 Arnold Serm. II. 320 If there be no God,..let us eat and drink, or follow what likes us best.’
‘pettish, adj. Of a person or his or her behaviour: subject to fits of offended ill humour; childishly bad-tempered and petulant; peevish, sulky . . . . 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miiv/2, Petish, effrænis..iracundus. . . a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iv. 272 He became pettish, wayward, frantick, bloudy. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 6 Aug. (1972) VII. 236, I checked her, which made her mighty pettish . . ’
‘strait n. . . B. n. . . 2. fig. a. . . a time of sore need or of awkward or straitened circumstances, a difficulty or fix . . sing. 1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. cxxxvii. sig. G vij, Whych thing is not to be done, but in a great strayte, & vrgent necessitie. 1642 Earl of Cork in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. V. 117 By..deceiuing the trust imposed vpon you, you put two gentlemen to a greate streighte. . . 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xliii. 222 The streight, which the discovery of my brother's foolish project had brought me into . .
‘Lazy Susan n. (also lazy susan) orig. U.S. a revolving (wooden) stand on a table to hold condiments, etc.; a muffin stand. 1917 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 17 (advt.) Revolving Server or Lazy Susan. . . 1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 10/1 The best china is used. Silver pots of steaming tea and coffee spin round with wheels of gateaux on a massive lazy susan.’
In British English = ‘dumb waiter’. My family home had, possibly still has, a couple:
‘1. An article of dining-room furniture, intended to dispense with the services of a waiter at table. In its typical form, an upright pole bearing one or more revolving trays or shelves. On these are placed dishes and other table requisites, which can thus readily be got at as required . . 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 160 A bottle of burgundy, with the other necessaries, were set on a dumb-waiter . . ‘
'Doggerland was a former landmass in the southern North Sea that connected Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age until about 6,500 or 6,200 BCE until it was gradually flooded by rising sea levels. Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from Britain's east coast to the Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and Denmark . .
A search for images produces a host of maps showing its varying extent at different epochs. ......... Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort . . its tagline is "The World of Strange Phenomena".
‘pasty, n. < . . Old French pasté . . a. Originally: †a pie of seasoned meat, esp. venison, enclosed in a pastry crust and baked without a dish (obs.) . . 1296 in E. Stokes & L. Drucker Warwickshire Feet of Fines (1939) II. 30 (MED), Simon le Pasteymaker. . . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Jan. (1970) I. 9 The venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome . . ‘
‘galley . . 3. A large open row-boat, e.g. one appropriated to the captain of a man-of-war, one formerly used on the Thames by custom-house officers, and by the press-gang; also, a large pleasure-boat. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiv/1, A Gallye, phacellus. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 19 May (1965) I. 413, I..went cross the canal in my Galley. . . 1861 Dickens Great Expectations III. xv. 249 The Jack..asked me if we had seen a four-oared galley going up with the tide?’
and
‘gully n. . . 3. A narrow and deep artificial watercourse; a deep gutter, drain, or sink. 1768 G. White Let. 27 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 52 The gullies that were cut for watering the meadows. 1883 Times 21 Aug. 6/3 The watering of the streets and flushing of the gullies.’
The term remains in common use today = street drain.
'over . . 2. b. Preceding a preposition. †over about: surrounding; over against . . : surrounding (obs.); adjacent to, facing, opposite. . . . 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark xiii. f. lxiiii, As he sate on mounte olivete over ayenst the temple. . . 1622 J. Brinsley Consol. Gram. School 67 Hauing the Latin set ouer-against the Greek. . . 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 261. ⁋1 The Wheat-Sheaf over-against Tom's Coffee-house.'
‘sandwich, n.2 . . Said to be named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), who once spent twenty-four hours at the gaming-table without other refreshment than some slices of cold beef placed between slices of toast. This account of the origin of the word is given by Grosley Londres (1770) I. 262. Grosley's residence in London was in 1765, and he speaks of the word as having then lately come into use. 1. a. An article of food for a light meal or snack, composed of two thin slices of bread, usu. buttered, with a savoury (orig. spec. meat, esp. beef or ham) or other filling . . 1762 Gibbon Jrnl. 24 Nov. (1929) 185, I dined at the Cocoa Tree... That respectable body..affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty..of the first men in the kingdom,..supping at little tables..upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich.’
OED has the gen (having no doubt debated this entry at some length, as these issues are as contentious now as in 1641):
‘Roundhead, n. and adj. Originally (in sense A. 1a) with allusion to the Puritan custom of wearing closely cropped hair, as opposed to the long hair typically worn by Royalists; compare quot. 1651 at sense A. 1a. The name appears to have arisen in 1641. Compare quot. 1641, and also the following:
a1690 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 463 The House of Commons met on Monday Dec. 27th. [1641]... There being three or four Gentlemen walking near, one of them named David Hide a Reformado in the late Army against the Scots..began to bussle and said he would cut the Throat of those Round-headed Dogs that bawled against Bishops (which passionate Expressions of his, as far as I could ever learn, was the first minting of that Term . . of Round-heads, which afterwards grew so general). 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. 456 [In the account of the year 1641] And from those contestations the two Terms of Round-Head and Cavalier grew to be received in discourse, and were afterwards continued for the most Succinct distinction of affections throughout the quarrel: They who were looked on as Servants to the King, being then called Cavaliers; and the other of the Rabble contemned, and despised under the names of Round-Heads.
A. n. 1. a. Brit. Hist. Usu. with capital initial. A member or adherent of the Parliamentary party during the English Civil War; = parliamentarian . . 1641 R. Brathwait Mercurius Britanicus iv. sig. D4v, Lord, with what pricked up eares, these round heads harken to their oratour Prinner and admire in hearing him. . . 1651 W. Lilly Monarchy or no Monarchy 107 The Courtiers againe, wearing long Haire and locks, and alwayes Sworded, at last were called by these men [sc. the Puritans] Cavaliers; and so after this broken language had been used a while, all that adhered unto the Parlament were termed Round-heads; all that tooke part or appeared for his Majestie, Cavaliers, few of the vulgar knowing the sence of the word Cavalier. . . 1930 W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman 1066 & All That xxxv. 63 We come at last to the Central Period of English History..consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive) . . ‘
‘III. Of extraction, withdrawal, removal. * With that which is taken as the object. 32. trans. To pull out, take out, extract (e.g. a cork from a bottle, a tooth from the jaw, a charge from a gun, a nail, screw, etc. from what it is fixed in, bread from an oven, stone from a quarry, a root, pole, young plants, stumps at cricket, etc. from the ground, a card from the pack). Also, to bowl out a batsman. . . 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 34. ⁋5 To cut off Legs, as well as draw Teeth . . ‘
‘droll, n. < French drôle, originally a noun ‘a good fellow, boone companion, merrie grig, pleasant wag; one that cares not which end goes forward, or how the world goes’ (Cotgrave) . . 1. A funny or waggish fellow; a merry-andrew, buffoon, jester, humorist. . . 1665 S. Pepys Diary 7 June (1972) VI. 119 Very merry we were, Sir Thomas Harvy being a very drolle . . ‘
I suggest that ‘red-faced parson’ was simply Pepys’ nickname for this person. In my youth my family referred to our local librarian as ‘the loud-voiced lady’ even though we knew her name - Mrs Charlish - as a private family joke.
This is a private diary, not written for publication so SP might naturally use his nickname for someone, particularly for a minor character in his life.
‘ . . Following his defeat at the battle of Worcester. . Charles II went into hiding . . Having availed himself of a pass which Jane had recently obtained . . to visit a pregnant kinswoman . . he accompanied her as a manservant . . mounted on horseback before ‘Mistress Lane’ . . over the next week the king's protectress ‘comported herself with extraordinary prudence and fidelity’ particularly in the streets of Stratford upon Avon, where she and her royal companion collided with a troop of parliamentarian cavalry, a moment of extreme danger which she surmounted by a cool composure.
. . After accompanying Charles to Trent . . she [was] forced to take flight herself when .. . information about her involvement in his escape was presented to the council of state . . she trudged on foot, disguised as ‘a country wench’, to Yarmouth, from where she took ship to France.
When Jane arrived in Paris . . she was welcomed by the English court in exile. Charles, who had landed in France two months before, greeted her with the salutation ‘Welcome my life’ . .’ At the Restoration the king granted Jane an annual pension of £1000 . . She died [in] 1689 . .
Louise Hudson is correct: OED has 6 phrases using the term ‘get laid’ in its sexual sense; the earliest dates from 1955. So do please stop finding sexual connotations in perfectly innocent diary entries!
‘1. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. 1987 ... in the form of his ability to get laid ....
2. almighty, adj., n., and adv. 1998 ...ighty God that he was about to get laid ....
3. cocksucker in cock, n.1 1962 ...of you white cock suckers ever get laid ....
4. laugh, n. 1999 ...Take four guys who all vow to get laid before their Prom night and ...
5. methyltestosterone in methyl, n. 1955 ...Crossing the Atlantic Ocean to get laid . He can't even get it up wit...
6. nerdishness, n. 1987 ... in the form of his ability to get laid .… ‘
‘Epicure . . 2. One who gives himself up to sensual pleasure, esp. to eating; a glutton, sybarite. . . a1616 Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 8 Then fly, false Thanes, And mingle with the English Epicures. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) App. 573 An Epicure is for his Wine, or Women, or Feasts continually.
. . Compounds attrib. and Comb. . . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 3 May (1970) II. 93 The exceeding unmannerly and most epicure-like palate of Mr. Creed.’
‘Palate . . 2. a. The palate considered as the seat of taste; (hence) the sense of taste; a sense of appreciation of taste and flavour, esp. when sophisticated and discriminating. . . 1600 Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 95 Let their pallats be seasond with such viands. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xiii. 184 As soon may the same meat please all palats. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 409. ¶2 Every different Flavour that affects the Palate . . ‘
‘Pompey, n. Etym: Apparently originally < Pompey, Anglicized form of the name of the Roman statesman and general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, . . although the reason for the application of the name in any of the senses is unclear.
The origin of sense 3 has been the subject of much conjecture; no documentation has been found to support any of the various explanations which have been put forward, such as an association with the name of the French ship La Pompée (captured by the British at Toulon in 1793 and subsequently based at Portsmouth), or with the ancient column at Alexandria, nicknamed Pompey's Pillar (which was reportedly scaled by sailors from Portsmouth). Considerably earlier currency of the nickname is perhaps implied by the phrase paws off, Pompey : see paw n.1 2c and discussion at that entry*.
. . 3. slang. A nickname for: the town and dockyard of Portsmouth, in Hampshire. Also: Portsmouth Football Club. Earliest documented with reference to the football club. 1899 Harwich & Dovercourt Free Press 25 Feb. , Portsmouth R. A., who are known in their own neighbourhood as 'Pompey', have undoubtedly a good record . .
* c. paws off: = hands off int. Earliest in ‘paws off, Caesar’ and (esp.) ‘paws off, Pompey’, Caesar and Pompey formerly being popular names for dogs. . . 1803 Cartoon 16 Apr. in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 138, I ax pardon Master Boney, but as we says Paws off Pompey, we keep this little Spot to Ourselves.’
According to this map, SP would have crossed a tributary of the Neckinger going south from London bridge and then the Effra, which flowed north from Brixton to the now Kennington Oval and then west into the Thames. This area, the south part of Lambeth, is where the mishap occurred, I think.
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About Tuesday 4 June 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘like v. 1
. . 1.c. to like well or ill : to be pleasing or the reverse.
. . 1667 Milton Paradise Lost vi. 353 They..colour, shape or size Assume, as likes them best.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 22 Nov. (1976) IX. 372 My boy's Livery is come home..and it likes me well enough
. . 1832 Arnold Serm. II. 320 If there be no God,..let us eat and drink, or follow what likes us best.’
About Friday 31 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re ‘pettish’, OED has:
‘pettish, adj. Of a person or his or her behaviour: subject to fits of offended ill humour; childishly bad-tempered and petulant; peevish, sulky . .
. . 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miiv/2, Petish, effrænis..iracundus.
. . a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iv. 272 He became pettish, wayward, frantick, bloudy.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 6 Aug. (1972) VII. 236, I checked her, which made her mighty pettish . . ’
About Tuesday 28 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘strait n. . . B. n. . . 2. fig. a. . . a time of sore need or of awkward or straitened circumstances, a difficulty or fix . .
sing.
1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. cxxxvii. sig. G vij, Whych thing is not to be done, but in a great strayte, & vrgent necessitie.
1642 Earl of Cork in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. V. 117 By..deceiuing the trust imposed vpon you, you put two gentlemen to a greate streighte.
. . 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xliii. 222 The streight, which the discovery of my brother's foolish project had brought me into . .
About Friday 24 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘Lazy Susan n. (also lazy susan) orig. U.S. a revolving (wooden) stand on a table to hold condiments, etc.; a muffin stand.
1917 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 17 (advt.) Revolving Server or Lazy Susan.
. . 1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 10/1 The best china is used. Silver pots of steaming tea and coffee spin round with wheels of gateaux on a massive lazy susan.’
In British English = ‘dumb waiter’. My family home had, possibly still has, a couple:
‘1. An article of dining-room furniture, intended to dispense with the services of a waiter at table.
In its typical form, an upright pole bearing one or more revolving trays or shelves. On these are placed dishes and other table requisites, which can thus readily be got at as required . .
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 160 A bottle of burgundy, with the other necessaries, were set on a dumb-waiter . . ‘
About Thursday 23 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
'Doggerland was a former landmass in the southern North Sea that connected Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age until about 6,500 or 6,200 BCE until it was gradually flooded by rising sea levels. Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from Britain's east coast to the Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and Denmark . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogg…
A search for images produces a host of maps showing its varying extent at different epochs.
.........
Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort . . its tagline is "The World of Strange Phenomena".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort…
About Wednesday 22 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘pasty, n. < . . Old French pasté . .
a. Originally: †a pie of seasoned meat, esp. venison, enclosed in a pastry crust and baked without a dish (obs.) . .
1296 in E. Stokes & L. Drucker Warwickshire Feet of Fines (1939) II. 30 (MED), Simon le Pasteymaker.
. . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Jan. (1970) I. 9 The venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome . . ‘
About Saturday 18 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘galley . . 3. A large open row-boat, e.g. one appropriated to the captain of a man-of-war, one formerly used on the Thames by custom-house officers, and by the press-gang; also, a large pleasure-boat.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiv/1, A Gallye, phacellus.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 19 May (1965) I. 413, I..went cross the canal in my Galley.
. . 1861 Dickens Great Expectations III. xv. 249 The Jack..asked me if we had seen a four-oared galley going up with the tide?’
and
‘gully n. . . 3. A narrow and deep artificial watercourse; a deep gutter, drain, or sink.
1768 G. White Let. 27 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 52 The gullies that were cut for watering the meadows.
1883 Times 21 Aug. 6/3 The watering of the streets and flushing of the gullies.’
The term remains in common use today = street drain.
About Friday 17 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
'over . . 2. b. Preceding a preposition. †over about: surrounding; over against . . : surrounding (obs.); adjacent to, facing, opposite. .
. . 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark xiii. f. lxiiii, As he sate on mounte olivete over ayenst the temple.
. . 1622 J. Brinsley Consol. Gram. School 67 Hauing the Latin set ouer-against the Greek.
. . 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 261. ⁋1 The Wheat-Sheaf over-against Tom's Coffee-house.'
About Thursday 16 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘sandwich, n.2 . . Said to be named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), who once spent twenty-four hours at the gaming-table without other refreshment than some slices of cold beef placed between slices of toast. This account of the origin of the word is given by Grosley Londres (1770) I. 262. Grosley's residence in London was in 1765, and he speaks of the word as having then lately come into use.
1. a. An article of food for a light meal or snack, composed of two thin slices of bread, usu. buttered, with a savoury (orig. spec. meat, esp. beef or ham) or other filling . .
1762 Gibbon Jrnl. 24 Nov. (1929) 185, I dined at the Cocoa Tree... That respectable body..affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty..of the first men in the kingdom,..supping at little tables..upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich.’
About Sunday 12 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Bill: The OED doesn't know about 'tent' in this sense; you should send them a full reference: http://www.oed.com/
About Saturday 11 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has the gen (having no doubt debated this entry at some length, as these issues are as contentious now as in 1641):
‘Roundhead, n. and adj. Originally (in sense A. 1a) with allusion to the Puritan custom of wearing closely cropped hair, as opposed to the long hair typically worn by Royalists; compare quot. 1651 at sense A. 1a. The name appears to have arisen in 1641. Compare quot. 1641, and also the following:
a1690 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 463 The House of Commons met on Monday Dec. 27th. [1641]... There being three or four Gentlemen walking near, one of them named David Hide a Reformado in the late Army against the Scots..began to bussle and said he would cut the Throat of those Round-headed Dogs that bawled against Bishops (which passionate Expressions of his, as far as I could ever learn, was the first minting of that Term . . of Round-heads, which afterwards grew so general).
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. 456 [In the account of the year 1641] And from those contestations the two Terms of Round-Head and Cavalier grew to be received in discourse, and were afterwards continued for the most Succinct distinction of affections throughout the quarrel: They who were looked on as Servants to the King, being then called Cavaliers; and the other of the Rabble contemned, and despised under the names of Round-Heads.
A. n. 1. a. Brit. Hist. Usu. with capital initial. A member or adherent of the Parliamentary party during the English Civil War; = parliamentarian . .
1641 R. Brathwait Mercurius Britanicus iv. sig. D4v, Lord, with what pricked up eares, these round heads harken to their oratour Prinner and admire in hearing him.
. . 1651 W. Lilly Monarchy or no Monarchy 107 The Courtiers againe, wearing long Haire and locks, and alwayes Sworded, at last were called by these men [sc. the Puritans] Cavaliers; and so after this broken language had been used a while, all that adhered unto the Parlament were termed Round-heads; all that tooke part or appeared for his Majestie, Cavaliers, few of the vulgar knowing the sence of the word Cavalier.
. . 1930 W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman 1066 & All That xxxv. 63 We come at last to the Central Period of English History..consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive) . . ‘
About Wednesday 8 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re ‘draw’OED has:
‘III. Of extraction, withdrawal, removal. * With that which is taken as the object.
32. trans. To pull out, take out, extract (e.g. a cork from a bottle, a tooth from the jaw, a charge from a gun, a nail, screw, etc. from what it is fixed in, bread from an oven, stone from a quarry, a root, pole, young plants, stumps at cricket, etc. from the ground, a card from the pack). Also, to bowl out a batsman.
. . 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 34. ⁋5 To cut off Legs, as well as draw Teeth . . ‘
About Tuesday 7 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘droll, n. < French drôle, originally a noun ‘a good fellow, boone companion, merrie grig, pleasant wag; one that cares not which end goes forward, or how the world goes’ (Cotgrave) . .
1. A funny or waggish fellow; a merry-andrew, buffoon, jester, humorist.
. . 1665 S. Pepys Diary 7 June (1972) VI. 119 Very merry we were, Sir Thomas Harvy being a very drolle . . ‘
About Sunday 5 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
I suggest that ‘red-faced parson’ was simply Pepys’ nickname for this person. In my youth my family referred to our local librarian as ‘the loud-voiced lady’ even though we knew her name - Mrs Charlish - as a private family joke.
This is a private diary, not written for publication so SP might naturally use his nickname for someone, particularly for a minor character in his life.
About Saturday 4 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re Jane Lane, DNB has:
‘ . . Following his defeat at the battle of Worcester. . Charles II went into hiding . . Having availed himself of a pass which Jane had recently obtained . . to visit a pregnant kinswoman . . he accompanied her as a manservant . . mounted on horseback before ‘Mistress Lane’ . . over the next week the king's protectress ‘comported herself with extraordinary prudence and fidelity’ particularly in the streets of Stratford upon Avon, where she and her royal companion collided with a troop of parliamentarian cavalry, a moment of extreme danger which she surmounted by a cool composure.
. . After accompanying Charles to Trent . . she [was] forced to take flight herself when .. . information about her involvement in his escape was presented to the council of state . . she trudged on foot, disguised as ‘a country wench’, to Yarmouth, from where she took ship to France.
When Jane arrived in Paris . . she was welcomed by the English court in exile. Charles, who had landed in France two months before, greeted her with the salutation ‘Welcome my life’ . .’ At the Restoration the king granted Jane an annual pension of £1000 . . She died [in] 1689 . .
About Friday 3 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Louise Hudson is correct: OED has 6 phrases using the term ‘get laid’ in its sexual sense; the earliest dates from 1955. So do please stop finding sexual connotations in perfectly innocent diary entries!
‘1. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. 1987
... in the form of his ability to get laid ....
2. almighty, adj., n., and adv. 1998
...ighty God that he was about to get laid ....
3. cocksucker in cock, n.1 1962
...of you white cock suckers ever get laid ....
4. laugh, n. 1999
...Take four guys who all vow to get laid before their Prom night and ...
5. methyltestosterone in methyl, n. 1955
...Crossing the Atlantic Ocean to get laid . He can't even get it up wit...
6. nerdishness, n. 1987
... in the form of his ability to get laid .… ‘
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
About Friday 3 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘Epicure . . 2. One who gives himself up to sensual pleasure, esp. to eating; a glutton, sybarite.
. . a1616 Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 8 Then fly, false Thanes, And mingle with the English Epicures.
a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) App. 573 An Epicure is for his Wine, or Women, or Feasts continually.
. . Compounds attrib. and Comb.
. . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 3 May (1970) II. 93 The exceeding unmannerly and most epicure-like palate of Mr. Creed.’
‘Palate . . 2. a. The palate considered as the seat of taste; (hence) the sense of taste; a sense of appreciation of taste and flavour, esp. when sophisticated and discriminating.
. . 1600 Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 95 Let their pallats be seasond with such viands.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xiii. 184 As soon may the same meat please all palats.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 409. ¶2 Every different Flavour that affects the Palate . . ‘
About Thursday 2 May 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED offers:
‘Pompey, n. Etym: Apparently originally < Pompey, Anglicized form of the name of the Roman statesman and general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, . . although the reason for the application of the name in any of the senses is unclear.
The origin of sense 3 has been the subject of much conjecture; no documentation has been found to support any of the various explanations which have been put forward, such as an association with the name of the French ship La Pompée (captured by the British at Toulon in 1793 and subsequently based at Portsmouth), or with the ancient column at Alexandria, nicknamed Pompey's Pillar (which was reportedly scaled by sailors from Portsmouth). Considerably earlier currency of the nickname is perhaps implied by the phrase paws off, Pompey : see paw n.1 2c and discussion at that entry*.
. . 3. slang. A nickname for: the town and dockyard of Portsmouth, in Hampshire. Also: Portsmouth Football Club. Earliest documented with reference to the football club.
1899 Harwich & Dovercourt Free Press 25 Feb. , Portsmouth R. A., who are known in their own neighbourhood as 'Pompey', have undoubtedly a good record . .
* c. paws off: = hands off int. Earliest in ‘paws off, Caesar’ and (esp.) ‘paws off, Pompey’, Caesar and Pompey formerly being popular names for dogs.
. . 1803 Cartoon 16 Apr. in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 138, I ax pardon Master Boney, but as we says Paws off Pompey, we keep this little Spot to Ourselves.’
About Tuesday 30 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
According to this map, SP would have crossed a tributary of the Neckinger going south from London bridge and then the Effra, which flowed north from Brixton to the now Kennington Oval and then west into the Thames. This area, the south part of Lambeth, is where the mishap occurred, I think.
About Tuesday 30 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Lost rivers map: http://jimcofer.com/personal/wp-c…