1825. Modern Flash Dict., s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Inglers. Horse-dealers who cheat
those that deal with them.
Ingotted, adj. (common).—Rich; warm (q.v.). For synonyms see
well-ballasted.
1864. E. Yates, Broken to Harness, xvii. p. 168. (1873). They are a
tremendously well-timed set at Schröders; and he’s safe to ask no
women who are not enormously ingotted.
Iniquity Office, subs. (American).—A registry office. [A play upon
‘inquiry’ office].
Ingun. To get up one’s Ingun, verb. phr. (American).—To get angry; to
turn savage.
Ink. To sling ink, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To make a business of
writing. See Ink-slinger.
Inkhorn (or Ink-pot) adj. (obsolete).—Pedantic; dry; smelling of the
lamp.
1579. Churchyard, Choice, sig. Ee 1. As Ynkehorne termes smell of
the schoole sometyme.
1592. Nashe, Summer’s Last Will, [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), viii,
70]. Men that, removed from their ink-horn terms, Bring forth no
action worthy of their bread.
Inkle, verb. (American thieves’).—To warn; to give notice; to hint at;
to disclose.
1340–50. Alesaunder of Macedoine [E. E. T. S.] i. 615. A brem
brasen borde bringes he soone, Imped in iuory, too incle the
truthe, With good siluer & golde gailich atired.
Inkle-Weaver, subs. (old).—A close companion; a chum (q.v.).
1725. New Cant. Dict. s.v. Inkle.... As great as two inkle-weavers,
or As great as Cup and Can.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue.
Ink-Slinger, (Inkspiller or Ink-waster), subs. (common).—1. A
journalist or author: a brother of the quill: generally in contempt of
a raw hand. Fr. un marchand de lignes. See Ink.
1888. Texas Siftings, Oct. 13. ‘Who’s a big gun? You don’t consider
that insignificant ink-slinger across the way a big gun, do you?’
1888. Illustrated Bits, 14 April. But, helas! I am but a poor
ink-slinger.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 69. The Ink-spiller’s slate.
1894. Tit Bits, 7 April, p. 7, col. 3. You insulting ink-waster!
Ink-Slinging, subs. (common). Writing for the press. Fr. scribouillage.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 91. Wot with ink-slinging, hart,
and all that.
Inky, adj. (tailors’). Used evasively: e.g. of a question to which a
direct answer is undesirable or inconvenient.
Inlaid (or Well-Inlaid), adv. (old).—In easy circumstances; with
well-lined pockets; warm (q.v.).
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew. s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Innards, subs. (vulgar).—The stomach; the guts (q.v.). Also Inwards.
1602. Shakspeare, Othello, ii. 1. The thought whereof Doth like a
poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards.
1653. Brome, Five New Plays, 347. Bestow steeping thy skin in
perfumes to kill the stink of thy paintings and rotten inwards.
d. 1674. Milton [quoted in Johnson, Ed. 1755]. There sacrificing
laid, The inwards and their fat ... on the cleft wood.
1870. White, Words and their Uses, 387. The simple English word
(guts) for which some New England females elegantly substitute
in’ards, would shock many.
1871. London Figaro, 17 March. The usual answer given to William’s
enquiry as to what was found in the shark is, ‘his innards’.
To fill one’s innards, verb. phr. (common).—To eat.
Inner-man, subs. (common).—The appetite.
1889. Sporting Life, 30 Jan. Having satisfied the inner-man.
Innings, subs. (colloquial).—A turn; a spell; a chance: from the game
of cricket.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick Papers, (ed. 1857) p. 103. The friends of
Horatio Fizkin Esq., having had their innings, a little choleric
pink-faced man stood forward to propose another fit and proper
person to represent the electors of Eatanswill in Parliament.
1848. Thackeray, Book of Snobs, xx. The opposition wag is furious
that he cannot get an innings.
1883. James Payn, Naturalness, in Longman’s Mag., May, p. 67. And
others consent to listen to him upon the understanding that they
are presently to have their innings.
To have a good innings, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be fortunate,
especially in money matters.
To have a long innings, verb. phr. (colloquial). To die in the fulness
of years.
Innocent, subs. (old).—1. A simpleton; an idiot.
1598. Shakespeare, All’s well, etc. iv. 3. A dumb innocent that
could not say him nay.
1605. Jonson, Chapman, &c., Eastward Hoe (Dodsley, Old Plays, iv.
209). Again, if you be a cuckold, and know it not, you are an
innocent; if you know it and endure it, a true martyr.
1609. Jonson, Epicœne, iii. 4. Do you think you had married some
innocent out of the hospital, that would stand with her hands thus,
and a playse mouth, and look upon you.
1634. Beaumont & Fletcher, Two Noble Kinsmen, iv. I. She answered
me So far from what she was, so childishly, So sillily, as if she
were a fool, an innocent.
1639. Beaumont & Fletcher, Wit without Money, ii. There be three
kinds of fools, mark this note, gentlemen, Mark it, and understand
it.... An innocent, a knave fool, a fool politic.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Innocents, one of the innocents, a
weak or simple person, man or woman.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.