Loplolly, subs. (old).—A servant who makes himself generally useful,
and is always at the beck and call of his employer. See Loblolly.
Lord, subs. (common).—1. See quots.: cf. lady.
French synonyms. Un bombé (= a crump); une bobosse (popular: bosse =
hump); porter sa malle; une boulendos (= hunchback); un bosmar
(popular); un Mayeux; un moule-à-melon (popular); un amoureux
(popular); un porte-balle (popular); un loucheur de l’épaule (= i.e., a
person who squints with his shoulder).
German synonyms. Asterwitz; Pienk (Bavarian: Pünk = a bundle or
protruberance).
Spanish synonyms. Brijindobio (Sp. gypsy); paldumo (Sp. gypsy);
brijibio.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Lord, a very crooked, deformed,
or ill-shapen Person.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, xxviii. Who ... was ... on
account of his hump, distinguished by the title of My lord.
1785. Grose, Vulgar Tongue, s.v. Lord.
1820–33. Lamb, Essays of Elia. A deformed person is a lord ... we
do not find that that monarch [Richard III] conferred any such
lordships as here pretended.
1827. Todd, Johnson’s Dicty., s.v. Lord. A ludicrous title given by
the vulgar to a hump-backed person; traced, however, to the Greek
λορδος, crooked.
1864. Athenæum, 29 Oct., No. 1931. On the Greek origin of lord, as
applied to those who are vulgarly called ‘hunchbacks,’ Mr. Hotten
is silent.
1886. W. Besant, World Went Very Well Then, iii. He was, in
appearance, short and bent, with rounded shoulders, and with a hump
(which made the boys call him My lord).