corporation n.
the body or stomach, esp. when fat.
 | Count Fathom (1813) I 156: Sirrah! my corporation is made up of good wholesome English fat; but you are puffed up with the wind of vanity and delusion. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Memoirs of the celebrated Miss Fanny M-. 129: He was fat enough to perform any part that did not require such a corporation as Sir John Falstaff. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Corporation, a large belly. He has a glorious corporation; he has a very prominent belly. |
| Sporting Mag. Apr. IV 52/2: The great rotundity of his shape, which affords his legal acquaintance cause for calling him a corporation sole. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 130: He appeared to me, a heavy, thick, round-made, large-boned man [...] he was in the vale of years, and had acquired some corporation. | |
| Navy at Home II 185: Billybuffer was compared to a rum-puncheon, and from said rotundity, [...] being frequently, with faces of concern and condolence, asked after the health and state of his corporation. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) Sept. 6 n.p.: Her corporation drawn in and her stern bulged out. | |
| Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 6 Aug. n.p.: We should judge from the appearance of her corporation that it [i.e. the subject’s income] is rather lean. | |
| Shirley 375: The Rector [...] looming large in full canonicals [...] with the dignity of an ample corporation . | |
| Fights for the Championship 112: Carter was also in robust health, but his corporation partook a little too much of civic importance. | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Mar. 26/2: It is a sight to [...] behold him drink, to watch the good liquor poured into his capacious corporation. | |
| Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. | |
| Londres et les Anglais 313/2: corporation, corpulence. | |
| Sl. Dict. | |
| Sporting Times 30 Aug. 4/5: Shan’t want a chair, but a good broad sofa adapted to a decent [...] corporation. | |
| Autobiog. i 49: Very stout men... each possessing larger corporations than are commonly seen [F&H]. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Bird (Sydney) 29 Mar. 2/2: Kearney was very stout and [...] to diminish the width of his target he tried to tuck in his corporation, and by doing so increased his protuberance behind. | |
| [perf. George Robey] ‘A B ab’ 🎵 To africa he went to show his half a ton of jelly, / [...] / he started off to Mr Rhodes, his corporation made two loads,. | |
| My Brilliant Career 167: Two stout old squatters with big laughs and bigger corporations. | |
| ‘Dukie M’Kenzie’s Dawnce’ in Benno and Some of the Push 44: Cilly gave the wheel another turn, and a hard jet bounced off Jumbo’s large, taut corporation. | |
| Gilded Six-Bits (1995) 988: He ain’t puzzle-gutted, honey. He jes’ got a corporation. | |
| None But the Lonely Heart 70: He was only a little bloke, but broad as a door, with a corporation as made him leave the top three buttons of his trousers undone. | |
| Guardian 4 July 🌐 Deparideu arrived last Friday. You can hardly miss him. He is a kenspeckled figure, about seven feet tall with a proportionate corporation. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
coal gas bubbled through milk, a down-and-out alcoholic’s tipple.
| ‘Prison Language’ in Michaels & Ricks (1980) 526: If all else fails, a buzz may be obtained by the down and out’s standby, the corporation cocktail, which is coal gas inhaled through milk. |
(Irish) water, as used in smoothing down the hair.
| Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 184: Water is [...] widely referred to as ‘juice’, or ‘Corporation pop’. And ‘Corporation hair-oil’ is the commodity with which they (sometimes) flatten their hair of a morning. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Smokey Hollow 51: He was the first to use ‘Corporation hairoil,’ or water, to achieve a quiff in his hair and was called a mickeydazzler because of it. |