deady
See also: Deady
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Deady, the last name of David Deady and his brother James Deady, distillers in London in the early 1800s.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]deady (uncountable)
- (British, slang, obsolete) (A nickname for) gin, or a particular kind of gin.
- 1911, John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., page 7:
- Nor took a punch nor given a swing, / But just soaked deady round the ring / Until their brains and bloods were foul / Enough to make their throttles howl, […]
References
[edit]- ^ “deady, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “deady n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
