everlasting adj.
(US) general intensifier, exceeding, excessive, complete, absolute.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Jealous Wife II ii: Heaven knows when I shall get rid of them, for they are both everlasting gossips. | |
| Haunted Inn II iii: That everlasting corporal! | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Kentuckian in N.Y. I 62: What an everalastin’ pity ’tis, these critters elbows ain’t a suple as their heels. | |
| Clockmaker I 191: I had no business to run an old roadster so everlastin fast. | |
| Nick of the Woods I 183: Cut and run, Capting, for there’s an everlasting sight of ’em behind me! | |
| Letter-bag of the Great Western (1873) 29: You most particular, everlastin, almighty snail! do you calculate to convene me with them are chicken fixings or not? | |
| Sam Slick in England II 34: Oh it’s an everlastin’ pity you warn’t here. | |
| Eight Months in Illinois 66: The old doctor was so everlastin’ busy. | |
| Cruise of the Portsmouth (1963) 94: These ’ere natives are too ever-lasting lazy to catch ’em. | |
| Moby Dick (1907) 83: With all three masts making such an everlasting thundering against the side. | |
| Season Ticket 250: I can’t talk book learnin’ [...] nor eberlastin’ long words. | |
| Down in Tennessee 75: That’s where you’ll get, old man, if you don’t give up your everlasting lying. | |
| First Fam’lies in the Sierras 46: It’s an everlastin’ and a burnin’ shame! | |
| Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 36: If you was my boy and played any of your tricks on me, I would maul the everlasting life out of you. | |
| Maggie, a Girl of the Streets (2001) 6: Come how, now [...] an’ stop yer jawin’, er I’ll lam the everlasting head off yehs. | |
| Boy’s Own Paper 24 Nov. 116: Hurd was standing outside his door smoking his everlasting short pipe. | |
| Arthur’s 301: You everlastin’ ole box of tricks, you. | |
| Anadarko Dly Democrat 28 Mar. 1/1: Firmly, yet gently, pull the doflicker [...] put our foot on the dingfum that touches the thingumbob, press the sockdologer [...] and then yank the everlasting stuffing out of the whang-doodle. | |
| City Of The World 260: I could never mace – bamboozle – the fences wi’ one hand, while I kep’ a stew o’ mysteries, running to thousands and thousands – all to be split up small among a everlasting daffy o’ the boys – with the other. | |
| (con. 1918) Red Pants 189: Recruitin’ officer that picked that fish will undoubtedly go to everlastin’ hell. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Men Without Wives Ii i: Shut your everlasting growling! | |
| ‘Death’s Passport’ in Goodstone Pulps (1970) 117/2: He blooped that sedan up to seventy from a standing start; kicked the everlasting tripes out of it. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
see under shoe n.
the prison treadmill.
| Chester Chron. 3 Oct. 3/7: ‘Two years hard labour’ — ‘Well (cried Aby) who cares? I’ll go and walk the everlasting stairs. | |
| Dict. of the Flash or Cant Lang. 163/1: Everlasting staircase – the treadmill. | |
| [ | | Crim.-Con. Gaz. 6 Apr. 105/1: How did you like the month’s getting up stairs you had at Brixton for borrowing your master’s leather]. |
| Sherborne Mercury (Dorset) 1 June 3/3: T.P. Howard, Esq. has given him employment for two calendar months on the ‘everlasting staircase’ [...] at Dorchester Castle. | |
| Leeds Intelligencer 26 Oct. 5/4: Hawksworth was committed to Wakefield for a month’s recreation on the everlasting stairs. | |
| ‘Bates’ Farm’ in Sl. and Its Analogues I (1890) 142/1: And for a little pastime work / The everlasting stairs. | |
| Kendal Mercury 24 Jan. 6/1: Individuals [...] whose whereabouts ought to be studiously avoided, on pain of climbing the ‘everlasting astaircase’. | |
| Vocabulum 30: everlasting The treadmill. | |
 | Louth & N. Lincs Advertiser 6 Sept. 4/5: Some persons not having the fear of Mr Phillips’ everlasting staircase [...] have recently indulged their propensities for mischief. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
| London Characters 349: I had ‘done’ my quarter of an hour on the everlasting staircase. | |
| N. Devon Jrnl 8 Feb. 7/2: [from The Echo] The treadmill again, is more politely called the everlasting staircase, or the wheel of life, or the vertical care-grinder . | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Tuapeka Times (Otago, NZ) 12 Aug. 6/4: A treadmill [...] was called the ‘everlasting staircase’. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 27: Everlasting Staircase, the treadmill. | |
| Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 26 Nov. 4/5: Abolishing the ‘Everlasting Staircase’ [...] Of the 68 treadmills and cranks in operation in 1895, only 18 now rermain, and these will be abolished. | |
| Life and Death at the Old Bailey 63: The following crook’s words and phrases date from the days of the old Old Bailey: [...] the treadmill – everlasting staircase. |
(UK Und.) a shroud or coffin.
| ‘Jerry Abershaw’s Will’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 16: Vhen I am in my everlasting snit [sic] so tightly drest, / And no friend to wisit Jerry but the crows. |
the vagina.
| ‘The Gelding of the Devil’ in An antidote against melancholy 14: Pulling her coats above her knee, / And so looking upward from the ground, / O there he spy’d a terrible wound. | |
| ‘The Lady’s Wound’ in Flash Minstrel! in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) I 119: A certain something met his sight; / ’Twas a little gash below he found, / Oh dear, said he, how got you this wound? | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 69: Coiffe, f. The female pudendum; ‘the everlasting wound’. |