_A waiter._
This tendency extends, however, to the colloquial language of the
cultivated. »_Precious_», for instance, is almost regularly substituted
for _very_ by many persons of some education.
(The inverse construction—_adverb_ instead of _adjective_—may be heard
now and then: the child looked very _nicely_, etc.)
_Adjectives turned into a Plural Noun to express a State of Mind._
I used to get the fair _dismals_ watching it. (T. T. T. 129.
21.)
_A Waiter._
It gave me the _blues_ for a day or two—that bit of news. (T.
T. T. 146. 20.)
_The same._
_As_ stands very often for _Relative Pronouns_ without a preceding _such_.