1852. Bristed, Five Years, 127. He came out the winner, with the
kingsman, and one of our three.
3. in pl. (military).—The Seventy-eighth Foot. [Their motto is
Cuidich’r Rhi = Help the King].
King’s (or Queen’s) Pictures, subs. phr. (common).—Money. For synonyms
see Actual and Gilt.—B. E. (1690); New Cant. Dict. (1725); Grose
(1785). To draw the King’s (or Queen’s) picture = to counterfeit money.
1632. Brome, The Court Beggar, in Wks. (1873), Vol. I, (v. 2) p.
258. This picture drawer drew it, and has drawn more of the King’s
Pictures than all the limners in the town.
King’s Plate, subs. phr. (old).—Fetters.—Lex. Bal. (1811). For synonyms
see Darbies.
Kingswood Lion, subs. phr. (old).—An ass; a Jerusalem-pony (q.v.). For
synonyms see Moke.
Kink, subs. (colloquial).—A crotchet; a whim.
1846. Marryat, Peter Simple, ch. xx. Look at your shoulders above
your ears, and your back with a bow like the kinking of a cable.
1850. H. B. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ch. xii. ‘Buy me too, Mas’r,
for de dear Lord’s sake!—buy me—I shall die if you don’t!’ ‘You’ll
die if I do, that’s the kink of it,’ said Haley,—‘no!’ And he
turned on his heel.
1869. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, 33. The fact is, when a woman gets a
kink in her head agin a man, the best on us don’t do jest the right
thing.
1883. James Payn, Thicker than Water, ch. xxiv. The wheel of life
was turning smoothly enough for Mary when there suddenly came a
kink in it.
Kinky, adj. (colloquial).—Eccentric; short tempered; twisty (q.v.).
1848. Jones, Sketches of Travel, p. 146. The kinky-headed cus
looked at me sidways and rolled the whites of his eyes at me like
he was gwine to have a fit.
1889. Sportsman, 2 Jan. At the former the kinky ones and the worthy
souls who play hole-and-corner with society are made to partake of
the toke of contrition and the skilly of repentance.
Kip, subs. (old).—A brothel. For synonyms see Nanny Shop. To tatter a
kip = to wreck a house of ill-fame.
1766. Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, xx. My business was to attend
him at auctions, to put him in spirits when he sat for his picture,
to take the left hand in his chariot when not filled by another,
and to assist at tattering a kip, as the phrase was, when we had a
mind for a frolic.