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Trunk. World English Historical Dictionary

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Trunk. 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. Trunk subs. (old).—1.  A blockhead, a dunce (BLOUNT, 1656).

1   2.  (common).—In pl. = trunk-hose: cf. SMALLS, TOTS, TIGHTS, etc. Also (modern) = (1) breeches: see KICKS, and (2) = bathing-drawers.

2   1613.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Captain, iii. 3.        And swore he look’d, in his old velvet TRUNKS And his slic’d Spanish jerkin, like Don John?

3   1851–61.  H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, III. 120. Red striped cotton stockings, with full TRUNKS dotted red and black.

4   3.  (old).—A nose (B. E. and GROSE). ‘How’s your old TRUNK?’ = a jeer at a big-nosed man; TO SHOVE A TRUNK = to poke one’s nose in, ‘to introduce oneself unasked into any place or company’ (GROSE).

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