crimson, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

crimson adj.

(mainly Aus.) a euph. for bloody adj. (1)

1851		Bell’s Life in Sydney 11 Jan. 2/7: She had a man [...] as would [...] ‘crimson well whack him’.
1860		R. Nicholson Rogue’s Progress (1966) 111: Two or three vulgar and thinking men added that most objectionable crimson adjective and addressed him as sanguinary old colonel.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 13 June 22/3: You crimson fool! Shut your gory mouth! Go to vermillion Hades!
1893–5		H. Lawson ‘Two Sundowners’ in Roderick (1972) 102: When a gory mate got suspicious of his own old mate [...] an’ took to plantin’ his crimson money — it was time to leave him.
1904		‘Dryblower’ ‘His Quest’ in Sun. Times (Perth) 3 Apr. 4/7: Then wot’s yer crimson ’urry?
1914		M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 133: For three crimson rounds Pig Flanagan and Tom Evans continued their contest, but even a good bleeder must run dry eventually.
1919		C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 203: You cold-footed blankin’ crimson crawlin’ blankers, yez.
1919		Bystander (London) 17 Dec. 3/1: ‘Yer ain’t go no (crimson) call ter sye I don’t understand’.
1925		Truth (Brisbane) 17 May 16/5: Our lofty ‘pile’ was got in / The War and Bawra’s days. / Now in steps (crimson) cotton! / Blank! Dash! ! ! ! !
1935		West. Mail (Perth) 18 July 8/2: ‘By cripes, we run some!’ [...] ‘Yairs,’ he drawled, ‘but not ’arf as fast as we’re crimson well goin’ to!’.
1940		Western Mail (Perth) 30 May 2/3: What the crimson blank is a man to do with his horses?

crimson chitterling (n.)

the penis.

1653		Urquhart (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 44: And some of the other women would give these names [...] my lusty live sausage, my crimson chitterlin, rump-splitter, shove-devil, down right to it, stiff and stout, in and to, at her again, my coney-borrow-ferret, wily-beguiley, my pretty rogue.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 99: Droit, m. The penis; ‘the crimson chitterling’.

crimson dawn (n.)

(UK, Glasgow) cheap red wine.

1937–84

Partridge DSUE (1984) 966/2: Glasgow —1934.

crimson rambler (n.) [SE crimson rambler, a variety of climbing rose; note cricket jargon crimson rambler, the ball]

(US) a bedbug.

1906		J.W. Carr ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:ii 132: crimson rambler, n. Bed-bug. ‘At that hotel they have great beds of crimson ramblers’.
1933		Ersine Und. and Prison Sl.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1967		in DARE.