cut and come again n.
1. plenty, abundance.
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Cut and come again, of Meat that cries come Eat me. | |
![]() | Polite Conversation 54: col.: I vow, ’tis a noble Sirloyn. nev.: Ay; here’s Cut and come again. | |
![]() | Proc. Old Bailey 24 Apr. 123/1: MARY Cut and Come-again [real name Mary White] spinster, was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth Turner widow, in a certain open place, in or near the King's highway called Leicester-fields. | |
![]() | Real Life in London I 551: It is impossible to say of him, as of his sirloin of a wife (for she cannot be called a rib, or at all events a spare rib) that there is any thing like cut and come again. | |
![]() | Bk of Sports 264: Never was ‘cutting and coming again’ performed in better style upon any occasion. | |
![]() | Dict. Americanisms 105: cut and come again. An expression in vulgar language, implying that having cut as much as you pleased, you may come again; in other words, plenty; no lack; always a supply. — Todd. | |
![]() | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 28: cut and come again, plenty, if one cut does not suffice plenty remains to ‘come again’. | |
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![]() | Sl. Dict. |
2. the vagina.
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. |