WIFFLE-WOFFLES, in the dumps, sorrow, stomach ache.
WIGGING, a rebuke _before comrades_. If the head of a firm calls a
clerk into the parlour, and rebukes him, it is an _earwigging_; if done
before the other clerks, it is a WIGGING.
WILD, a village.—_Tramps’ term._—_See_ VILE.
WILD, vexed, cross, passionate. In the United States the word _mad_ is
supplemented with a vulgar meaning similar to our Cockneyism, WILD; and
to make a man MAD on the other side of the Atlantic is to vex him, or
“rile” his temper—not to render him a raving maniac, or a fit subject
for Bedlam.
WILD OATS, youthful pranks.
WIND, “to raise the WIND,” to procure money; “to slip one’s WIND,”
coarse expression meaning to die.
WIND, “I’ll WIND your cotton,” _i.e._, I will give you some trouble.
The Byzantine General, Narses, used the same kind of threat to the
Greek Empress,—“I will spin such a thread that they shall not be able
to unravel.”
WINDED-SETTLED, transported for life.
WINDOWS, the eyes, or “peepers.”
WINEY, intoxicated.
WINKIN, “he went off like WINKIN,” _i.e._, very quickly.
WINKS, periwinkles.