Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of drinking-vessel.
- n. A low menial of either sex. Ford's Fancies, i. 3, note.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dialect A shallow drinking bowl.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. A shallow drinking bowl.
Examples
“So we got here just as the taxi was whiskin 'his nibs away ----”
“Soon as ever I shook up the bolster an 'settled down for another try, I see'd myself whiskin' back and forth over this here piece”
“I've been up tin thousand feet on a mountain, an 'they seemed so near that I kept whiskin' thim off me nose as I lay there on me back, but they wasn't anny larger thin they were on th 'sthreet-level.”
“In a while it began to be rayther hard wark, he darn't let t'kite goa, an 'ther wor nowt handy to tee it too, soa he thowt his best plan' ud be to pull it in, but just then a thowt struck him, as he saw Testy trottin 'off whiskin his tail, an' he went after him.”
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
“An 'fain wad I haud air an' watter in motion aboot me, an 'sae serve my en' -- whether by waggin 'wi' my wings or whiskin 'wi' my tail.”
““summat” to eat and drink, being the respectable relies of a gammon of bacon, and a whole whiskin, or black pot of sufficient double ale.”
“_whole whiskin, _ or black pot of sufficient double ale.”
“o 'Dawdles' wayscoit, he tummeld a backard summerset, an 'ligged him daan i' th 'middle o' th 'rooad, an' th 'cauf laup'd ovver th' wall o 't'other side an' gallop'd away, whiskin its tail abaat as if it wanted to cast it.”
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
“a ` ` summat '' to eat and drink, being the respectable relies of a gammon of bacon, and a whole whiskin, or black pot of sufficient double ale.”
“Begorrah, if ye don't look out sharp, Misther Sharp, ye'll hev the divvle whiskin 'ye off wid his tail, sure, fur thet same whisky ye're talkin' of! ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whiskin’.
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Maids
Maids of all stripes.
twait-shad, chambermaid, demoiselle, fille de chambre, housemaid, amah, lady's maid, femme-de-chambre, tire-woman, soubrette, comb-brush, abigail and 80 more...
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Gems from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulg...
Citation: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, unabridged from the original 1811 edition, with a foreword by Max Harris. London: Bibliophile Books, 1984.
Original title page: A Dictio...tuzzy-muzzy, half seas over, hugger mugger, hugotontheonbiqui..., doodle sack, juniper lecture, kate, kent street eject..., jack ketch, davy, abel-wackets, three-legged mare and 370 more...
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At Your Service
Servants who are traditionally male. Inspired by hernesheir's maids list (as well as Downton Abbey)
footman, chasseur, hurkaru, chobdar, lackey, jeames, manservant, pantryman, groom, palefrenier, coistrel, ostler and 106 more...
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End in -kin
You heard it here first. Well, maybe not first, but you heard it here. Well, maybe not "heard," but read. You read it here. At some point.
gherkin, merkin, firkin, malkin, pumpkin, bumpkin, pipkin, bodkin, napkin, mannikin, pigskin, sealskin and 83 more...
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My Cup Runneth Over
Drinking vessels.
cup, teacup, sippy cup, paper cup, beaker, glass, drinking glass, filigree-glass, wineglass, shot glass, tumbler, deepsinker and 50 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Have that book, c_b. Thanks. Sep 8, 2008
bilby *waves his wand and permits reesetee to have any colour bowl he wants* Sep 8, 2008
chained_bear Well, that's just me making a wild guess based on 10-year-old (at least), very minimal study of eighteenth-century pottery. There was a kind of cheap pottery—redware? cheaply-glazed stoneware?—that was dark brown. (Perhaps origins of "Little Brown Jug" as well?)
I found this site which offers a history of American pottery, which I didn't read terribly thoroughly. Also there's a great (if mostly unrelated) book called The Arcanum, the one by Janet Gleeson (not the novelist Thomas Wheeler), if you're that into the subject. :) Sep 8, 2008
reesetee Oh, that makes sense. I was wondering why the definition would include a specific color, but the pottery thing may explain that. Sep 8, 2008
chained_bear I guess. *shrugs*
OED lists 1 definition as: "A shallow kind of drinking-vessel." No brown mentioned. And 2 as: "A pander." Both are obsolete; the first is of northern dialect as well.
Possibly it's a certain kind of cheap pottery, which would have made it consistently colored. Sep 8, 2008
reesetee It has to be brown, huh? Sep 8, 2008
chained_bear "A shallow brown drinking bowl." Sep 7, 2008