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Squib. World English Historical Dictionary

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Squib. 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. Squib subs. (GROSE).—1.  ‘A small satirical or political temporary jeu d’esprit, which, like the fire-work of that denomination, sparkles, bounces, stinks, and vanishes.’

1   2.  (artists’).—A brush.

2   3.  (old).—See quot.

3   1731.  St. James’s Evening Post [W. C. SYDNEY, England and the English in Eighteenth Century, i. 229], ‘List of Officers attached to Gaming-houses’ … 4. Two Puffs, who have money given them to play with…. 6. A SQUIB who is a puff of a lower rank, who serves at half salary while he is learning to deal.

4   4.  (costers’).—In pl. = asparagus.

5   Verb. (old).—To lampoon.

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