silent, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

silent adj.

murdered.

1725

New Canting Dict. n.p.: […] See the Cull is silent, is also us’d by desperate Villains, for cutting the Throat, or shooting the unhappy Person who falls in their way.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

silent beard (n.) [development of 18C beard n. (1)]

the pubic hair; the vagina.

1702

T. Brown Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 202: It is not fit the silent beard should know how much it has been abus’d by the other parts of the body.

silent beef

see separate entries.

silent city (n.)

(US black) a graveyard.

1983

R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].

silent cop (n.) [SE silent + cop n.¹ (1)]

(Aus.) a yellow ‘sleeping policeman’ placed in the centre of road intersections.

1934		T. Wood Cobbers 122: A circle in the middle of cross-roads, for example, round which all traffic changing direction must swing; a round yellow blob, known here as the Silent Cop, or the Poached Egg.
1948		R. Raven-Hart Canoe in Aus. 187: Motorists often ignore ‘Silent cops’ at corners, yellow domes with white surrounds, ‘poached eggs’.

silent flute (n.)

the penis.

1720		‘The Silent Flute’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 229: The Flute is good that’s made of wood, / And is, I own, the neatest, / Yet, ne’ertheless I must confess / The silent Flute’s the sweetest.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 163: Hoping a tune o th’ silent flute / Would keep the scolding baggage mute.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1835		‘The Silent Flute’ in Fanny Hill’s New Friskey Chanter in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 335: [as 1720].
1988		J. McDonald Dict. of Obscenity etc.

silent woman (n.)

see good woman under good adj.¹

In phrases

silent but deadly (also silent violent)

describing a silent, but very smelly, breaking of wind.

1970		(con. 1950s) H. Junker ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 101: Silent but deadly.
1979		B. Gutcheon New Girls (1982) 261: Would it have cleared the air to say, ‘He who smelt it dealt it’ or ‘Silent but deadly’.
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 silent violent, silent but deadly (SBD) n. the silent farts that are always the most smelly. Used to decribe a lush anal aroma when no aural experience was encountered. Normally associated with ‘He who smelt (smelled) it dealt’ and ‘He who denied it supplied it’.