Lodging-slum, subs. phr. (thieves’).—Hiring furnished lodgings and
robbing them of all portable articles of value.—Grose (1823).
Log, subs. (public school).—The last boy of his ‘form’ or ‘house.’
Loge, subs. (old).—See quots. For synonyms see Turnip.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v. Loge, a watch. I suppose from the
French horloge, a watch or clock.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Loge ... he filed a cloy of a loge
... he picked a pocket of a watch.
Loges, subs. (old).—See quot.
1610. Rowlands, Martin Mark-all, p. 39 (H. Club’s Repr. 1874).
Loges a passe or warrant. A Feager of loges, one that beggeth with
false passes.
Loggerhead, subs. (old).—A blockhead. For synonyms see Buffle and
Cabbage-head.
1589. Shakspeare, Love’s Labour Lost, iv. 3, 207. Ah, you whoreson
loggerhead! you were born to do me shame.
1597. Shakspeare, 1 Henry IV, ii. 4. 4. Poins. Where hast been,
Hal? Prince. With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four
score hogsheads.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe [Grosart (1883–4), v. 281]. A sweaty
loggerhead.
1609. Dekker, Gul’s Horn-booke [Grosart (1886), ii. 204]. In
defiance of those terrible blockhouses, their loggerheads make a
true discovery of their wild country.
1667. Dryden, Sir Martin Markall, i. Warn. Pray, sir, let me alone:
what is it to you if I rail upon myself? Now could I break my own
logger-head.
1672. C. Cotton, Scarronides, Bk. i. p. 44 (ed. 1725). At last his
Friend jog’d him with’s Hand, How like a logger-head you stand!
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1704. Swift, Battle of the Books, in Prose Wks. (Camelot). A pack
of rogues, and fools ... and confounded loggerheads.
1777. Sheridan, Trip to Scarborough, i. 2. Lory. Here comes a head,
sir, would contrive it better than both our loggerheads, if she
would but join in the confederacy.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Loggerhead s.v.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, ii. ch. vii. ‘What plea, you
loggerhead,’ said the lawyer.
Adj. (old).—Stupid. Also loggerheaded (q.v.).
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, in Works, iii. 104. For the printing
of this logger-head Legend of lyes.
1711. Swift, Journal to Stella, 22 August, Lett. 28. Pretty, dear,
little, naughty, saucy M.D. Silly, impudent, loggerhead Presto.
To be at (or come to) loggerheads, verb. phr. (old).—To quarrel; to
come to blows.
1678. Cotton, Virgil Travestie, in Wks. (1725), Bk. iv. p. 90. He
was ... ready.... To fall to loggerheads ... with a few saucy
Carpenters.
1688. Shadwell, Sq. of Alsatia, in Works (1720), iv. 19. Go to
loggerheads with the constable and the watch.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1701. Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, i. They fell to loggerheads
about their playthings.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, xxxix. Who having driven their
carts against each other, quarrelled, and went to loggerheads on
the spot.
1828. Smeaton, Doings in London, ‘The Humours of the Fleet.’
Disputes more noisy now a quarrel breeds, And fools on both sides
fall to loggerheads.
1846. Punch, x. 46. The Queen’s Speech, xxx. ‘F. M. the Duke of
Wellington will let Mr. Punch have the earliest intimation of
anything definite being come to.’ As we have not heard from his
grace ... we can only presume that the ministers were, up to the
last moment, at loggerheads.
1876. C. H. Wall, trans. Molière, i. 199. You see that without my
help you would still all be at loggerheads.
Loggerheaded, adj. (old).—Blockheaded. Also log-headed.
1567. Edwards, Damon & Pithias [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), iv. 65].
For well I knew it was some mad-headed child That invented this
name, That the log-headed knave might be beguiled.
1596–7. Shakspeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv. 1. You logger-headed
and unpolish’d grooms.
1626. Breton, Pasquil’s Madcappe [Grosart (1876), i.e. 6, 1, 8].
Who hath not seene a logger-headed Asse.
1672. C. Cotton, Scarronides, Bk. iv. p. 102 (ed. 1725). But like a
logger-headed Lubber, Thou grinning stand’st, and seest me Blubber.
1684. Lacy, Sauny the Scot, iii. 1. Here, here, you loggerheaded
curs.
Logie, subs. (theatrical).—Sham jewellery. [From David Logie the
inventor].
1883. Sala, Living London, 483. The plastering of girdles with zinc
logies.