Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) a wealthy Australian who has left their native land for London.

1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl.
1959		R. Lawlor [play title] The Piccadilly Bushman.
1967		Meanjin 26 119: We dislike the Piccadilly bushman [...] and some of us have recently learnt to use the portentous word ‘expatriate’ about him.

venereal disease.

1700		‘The Country-man’s Delight’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 125: We fear no Covent-Garden Gout, / nor Pickadilly Cramp.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 125: We fear no Covent-Garden Gout, / Nor Pickadilly Cramp: / From Scurvy we / Are always free.

an affected style of walking adopted by society during the 1880s.

1881		J. Hatton Today in America 6/2: It is akin to ‘the Grecian bend’ that obtained among English women for a season, and to the ‘Piccadilly crawl’ of the jeunesse doré.
1889–90		Barrère & Leland Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant.
1900		Chambers Jrnl 220/1: Don’t be seen doing a Piccadilly crawl, with a handsome new pair of boots on your pedals and Mary Ann on your arm [...] for adjutants have eyes for other matters than those of military duties.
1900		Lierary Rev. 9-10 20/1: The ‘Gilded Fop’ — we know him well, Lounger of Bond Street and Pall Mall / His walk a Piccadilly crawl, His mind a blank, his speech a drawl.
1915		Cartoons Mag. 7:6 904: The kaiser says when he arrives in England, / Every other step will then be thro’, / The Piccadilly crawl will be no use at all.
1928		P.C. Wren Snake and Sword 147: A coward ridiculed by the effeminate, degenerate Haddock, who had no soul above club-ribbons, and no body above a Piccadilly crawl.
1938		Sussex County Mag. 12 308: This is a purely Sussex variety of what was known about a generation ago as the ‘Bond Street saunter,’ which was much slower than the ‘Piccadilly crawl’. Only those who are born either in the purple or in corduroys can acquire it.
1940		Punch 664/2: Avoid your normal Oxford accent or a Piccadilly crawl and hold on tightly to your native dignity.

a prostitute.

1933		R. Keable Omnibus 494: I’m not a Piccadilly daisy, and you ought to have known.
1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.

prostitutes walking Piccadilly.

1900

‘Swears’ Chestnuts 60: 800 brace of grouse were guaranteed on this moor, a few deer (not Piccadilly ones) [etc.].

a popular women’s hairstyle in which the hair is cut short into a fringe and curled over the forehead.

1875		Sun. Mag. 859: As to the girls, there is no hope but while they are children; off the dust-heaps they come, cutting their hair in front with a ‘Piccadilly fringe’.
1884		Mag. of Art 7 iii: Little Red Riding Hood (with a Piccadilly fringe) .
1885		Proc. Old Bailey 19 Oct. 🌐 When Jarrett talked about cutting my hair, she asked me if I wanted a ‘Piccadilly fringe’. – Is there anything objectionable about that? – It makes you look ugly. What is the ‘Piccadilly fringe’! – Cut your hair on your forehead.
1896		B. Brierly ‘Ab-o’th’-Yate’ Sketches 228: I’stead a rooghin’ mi Piccadilly fringe wi’ her fingers, hoo toped her yead o’ one side.
1901		Temple Bar 122 323: The higher type of factory girl, the girl who [...] has renounced many of her old ways, the befeathered hat, with the white apron, gaudy kerchief, large brass earrings and Piccadilly fringe.
1911		R. Kearton With Nature & Camera 22: Side by side with much that was picturesque and delightful in its primitive simplicity, we came across things of appalling modernity: such as a woman wearing a Piccadilly fringe.
1948		(con. late 19C) R.T. Wilcox Mode in Hats 245: The front was often cut into bangs, straight or crimped, ‘piccadilly fringe’.
1970		(con. late 19C) N. Lofts Lovers All Untrue 104: A fringe, a Piccadilly fringe! The very badge of a prostitute, except that the Princess of Wales . .

long side whiskers, worn without a beard and temporarily fashionable.

1859		Mayhew & Edwards Gose with Golden Eggs 6: Pounc. And put on these Piccadilly weepers. Veskit. And does that make md fit for a Member of Parliament ? Grog. Of course it does, (they dress him up with white hat, eye-glass, and false whiskers) .
1866		Mons. Merlin 28 July 6/2: [from London Rev.] ‘Piccadilly weepers don’t fetch me at all,’ said an artless young thing at a ball not long ago, meaning to express her dislike to the long whiskers of her vis-a-vis.
1873		Sl. Dict. 252: Piccadilly weepers, long carefully combed-out whiskers of the Dundreary fashion.
1881		Newcastle Courant 16 Sept. 6/5: An old man with ‘giglamps’ and iron-grey Piccadilly weepers.
1891		F.W. Carew Autobiog. of a Gipsey 412: Did you stag the milingtary-lookin’ swell with the ’starchios and Piccadilly-veepers.
1894		G. du Maurier Trilby 4: He wore an immense pair of drooping auburn whiskers, of the kind that used to be called Piccadilly weepers.
1904		C.L. Neil Amateur Theatricals 53: The gentleman in the long drooping whiskers known as ‘Piccadilly weepers,’ or the present fashionable beard, is absolutely impossible in a Roman toga.
1914		N. Newnham-Davies Gourmet’s Guide to London 243: The early days when Giovanini, the old maitre d'hotel, with bushy eyebrows and Piccadilly weepers, used to consider any ladies without an escort as being put under his special and fatherly protection.
1922		J.G. Huneker Steeplejack 82: The younger Rogers was a great swell, and his abundant side-whiskers, called ‘Piccadilly Weepers’ after Lord Dundreary's advent, were the envy of the younger crowd.
1939		(ref. to 1860s) C. de Zemler Once Over Lightly 69: In time, they arrived at ‘Piccadilly Weepers’ (during the sixties) and eventually on to ‘Dundrearys’. ‘Dundrearys’ were ‘Mutton-Chops’ or ‘Piccadilly Weepers’ which fell from either cheek as far as the shoulder or below.

a monocle.

1897		Le Brunn ‘The Golden Dustman’ 🎵 As-ter-ry-my-can rahnd the bottom o’ my coat, / A Piccadilly winder in my eye.
1909		(ref. to 1890s) in J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.
1913		Townsville Daily Bulletin 8 July 7/4: He wore an accent and a circle of glass in one eye technically known as a Piccadilly window.