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Spree. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Spree subs. (old).—1.  A frolic. As verb. = to carouse; SPREEISH = drunkish: see SCREWED (GROSE and BEE).

1   1821.  P. EGAN, Life in London, II. v. Roosters and the ‘peep-o’-day boys’ were out on a prowl for a SPREE.

2   1824.  SCOTT, St. Ronan’s Well, xx. John Blower, honest man, as sailors are aye for some SPREE or another, wad take me ance to see ane Mrs. Siddons.

3   1844.  Puck, 14. The Proctor caught him in a SPREE, Asked his name … with courtesie.

4   1847.  J. E. WALSH, Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago, 15. The ‘SPREE’ would probably have ended in the total sacking of Flattery’s house.

5   1848.  E. Z. C. JUDSON (‘Ned Buntline’), The Mysteries and Miseries of New York, I. 113. Taking a cruise about town, or going on a SPREE.

6   1841.  E. G. PAIGE (‘Dow, Jr.’), Short Patent Sermons, lxi. If a young man creates his own ruination by going it loose, and SPREEING it tight, it is surely a disgrace.

7   1859.  Punch, xxxvii. 9 July, 22, ‘A Chapter on Slang.’        Our friend prone to vices you never may see, Though he goes on the Loose, or the Cut, or the SPREE.

8   1860.  T. WINTHROP, Love and Skates. [He] took to SPREEIN’ and liquor, and got ashamed of himself, and let down from a foreman to a hand.

9   1870.  All the Year Round, 3 Dec., 8. He is not ‘out on the rampage,’ the ‘loose,’ or the ‘SPREE.’

10   1885.  Daily Telegraph, 16 Nov. He was always of the devil-may-care sort, fond of SPREEING about and lively company.

11   1892.  KIPLING, Barrack-Room Ballads, ‘Gentlemen-Rankers.’        Gentleman-rankers out on the SPREE, Damned from here to Eternity.

12   Adj. (Winchester).—1.  Conceited; stuck-up; of persons; (2) smart, stylish, befitting a Wykehamist SPREE-MESS (see quot. c. 1840).

13   c. 1840.  MANSFIELD, School-Life at Winchester College (1866), 72. At the end of the half-year we used to have large entertainments called SPREE-MESSES, between Toy-time and Chapel, consisting of tea, coffee, muffins, cakes, &c., the funds for which were generally provided by fines inflicted during Toy-time for talking loud, slamming the door, coming in without whistling (to show that it was not a Master entering), improper language, &c., &c. Sometimes a SPREE-MESS was given by the boys about to leave that Half.

14   1881.  PASCOE, ed. Everyday Life in Our Public Schools, 94. Deprive a Wykehamist of words … such as ‘quill’ … ‘pruff’ … ‘SPREE’ … ‘cud’ … and his vocabulary becomes limited.

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