Mrs n.
1. a wife, esp. as the Mrs. The husband’s surname is omitted, e.g. Here is Mr Smith, Mrs is out shopping; also in homosexual relationships.
Three-fold Discourse Between Three Neighbours 5: You are deceived Mrs. we never go for the signs sake, but for the wines sake. | ||
Songs and Poems 207: Then blush no more, but let your Mrs. know. | ‘To a Gentleman that fell sick of the small Pox’||
Marriage Broaker V i: Go and prepare Thy Mrs. too. | ||
Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City) 21 July 3/1: So to keep the peace, the husband concluded, — [...] That he would pamper his Mrs. | ||
Big Town 8: Then Kate and the Mrs. had one together. | ||
Coll. Works (1975) 233: The Mrs will be out in a few minutes. She’s in the tub. | ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’||
Caught (2001) 36: I said to the Mrs, I says, ‘Well, mother, your old man’s in trouble again.’. | ||
Honest Rainmaker (1991) 41: Dr. Sykes and his Mrs. were directing workmen. | ||
Queens’ Vernacular 138: Mrs title for a gayly married effeminate. | ||
GBH 117: ‘The local lads are very interested in Ray Warren’s disappearance [...] And his Mrs’. |
2. a bawd, a brothel-keeper.
Whores Dialogue 1: My Mrs, who had as fine a Trade as any one of her calling [...], this plaguy rout hath quite undone her [Ibid] 5: I see if thy Mrs. should turn thee away thou are able to set up Bawd for thyself. |
3. see Miss n.
Used with proper or metonymic names
In compounds
see Astorbilt n.
1. an over-made-up or overdressed person.
[ | Gullible’s Travels 81: About once a week we’d beat it to one o’ the good hotels down-town, all dressed up like a horse, and have our dinner with the rest o’ the E-light]. | |
Motor Boat 19 33: FAMILIAR figures No. 2 (seen from balcony), Billy Gibb dolled up like Mrs. Astor’s pet horse, decorating the for’ard cockpit of the Sea Sled Marathon. | ||
Four Score & More 281/1: All dressed up like Mrs. Astor’s plush horse, wearing sombreros, rebosos, serapes, etc. | ||
Mrs. Astor’s Horse 8: [One says] of any one who was rather ostentatiously dolled up: ‘she is dressed up like Mrs. Astor’s plush horse.’ Sometimes the phrase was ‘Mrs. Astor’s pet horse.’. | ||
Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 22 Aug. 21/2: W.C. Handy [and] Billy Banks [...] are the sensaytions [sic] of Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe, ‘Mrs Astor’s Pet horse,’ review. | ||
San Antonio Express 28 Sept. n.p.: 🌐 she drives a new car and dresses like Mrs Astor’s plush horse . | ||
🌐 Mother helped me dress, did my hair, and fussed over me as if I were Mrs. Astor’s pet horse. | Miss. Ring Apr.||
tootalltodd.blogspot.com 10 Jan. [blog] ‘I didn’t want to come in looking like Mrs. Astor’s pet horse.’ Sylvia Myer, fielding a compliment about her well-coifed appearance earlier this week. | ||
posting at www.gopusa.com 2 May 🌐 They’ll dress up like Mrs. Astor’s plush horse for weddings, when they’re putting on a show, but for any other sacred event, it’s jeans, sweatshirts, tee-shirts, shorts, etc. |
2. (US) as sense 1, of an over-ornamented inanimate object.
Detroit Free Press (MI) 15 Mar. 40/3: [advert] 1949 fords — I’ve got three of these all duked up like Mrs Astor’s pet horse; dripping chrome and sunshades and they run like scared rabbits choice of color at $1,287. |
(US black) a white woman in a position of authority, the fem. of Mr Charlie n. (1)
Lover Man 66: When I lost my hustle she took to bringing me little snips and snaps from Mrs Charlie’s kitchen, you dig? | ‘Suzie Q.’ in
a female cat.
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Mrs. Evans, a name frequently given to a she cat, owing, it is said, to a witch of the name of Evans, who frequently assumed the appearance of a cat. |
a female cat.
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Mrs. Evans, a name frequently given to a she cat, owing, it is said, to a witch of the name of Evans, who frequently assumed the appearance of a cat. |
the vagina.
Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 84: Mrs. Fubbs front parlour [...] is not to be mistaken for any part of any building. |
(US campus) a woman.
Rebelliad 21: But cease the touching chords to sweep, / For Mrs. Goff has deigned to weep. | ||
College Words (rev. edn) 328: mrs. goff. Formerly a cant phrase for any woman. |
(UK tramp) sleeping in the open air; thus Mrs Ashpits, sleeping near a lime-kiln.
Phenomena in Crime 255: Living with Mrs. Greenfield. Sleeping in the park. |
the hand, as used for masturbation; thus make a rendezvous with Mrs Hand, to masturbate.
Complete Barry McKenzie 12: I take them old wives’ tales about Mrs. Hand and her five daughters with a pinch of salt. | ||
Turnandburn 🌐 Masturbation — Male [...] have a big date with Rosy Palms, have a small stroke, have a rendezvous with Mrs. Hand. | ||
Things I Didn’t Know (2007) 130: The somewhat monotonous but reliable company of Mrs. Hand and her five ever-willing daughters. |
the Morning Herald and the Standard newspapers.
Punch x 11: It is a fact – and we will stake our reputation upon it – that Mrs. Gamp of the Herald did, one day last week, write [...] a leader about Lord John Russell [F&H]. | ||
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) 176: Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Gamp nicknames of the Morning Herald and Standard newspapers, while united under the proprietorship of Mr. Baldwin. mrs. gamp, a monthly nurse, was a character in Mr. Charles Dickens’ popular novel of Martin Chuzzlewit, who continually quoted an imaginary Mrs Harris in attestation of the superiority of her qualifications, and the infallibility of her opinions; and thus afforded a parallel to the two newspapers, who appealed to each other as independent authorities, being all the while the production of the same editorial staff. | ||
, , | Sl. Dict. | |
Sportsman (London) 5 Jan. 2/1: The Standard is furious [...] and it would seem [...] that a little of the ‘Gamp’ bile has become infused into the system of the lamented matron’s legitimate successor. | ||
Sl. Dict. | ||
[ | Punch 8 Aug. n.p.: The Standard figures as ‘Sairey Gamp’ scolding – in allusion to a recent article in the S. abusing Lord Randolph Churchill [F&H]]. |
the lavatory; thus visit Mrs Jones, to use the lavatory; upset Mrs Jones, to tip over the water closet.
Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 210: Mistress Jones — house-keeper of the water-closet. | ||
Modern Flash Dict. 10: Counting-house, Mrs. Jones’s, the privy. | ||
Swell’s Night Guide 123/1: Jones’s, Mrs, the coffee-house privy. | ||
, , | Sl. Dict. | |
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
a brothel-keeper.
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
1. a cleaner.
[ | ITMA (BBC Light Programme) 10 Oct. [radio script] Mrs. Mopp (Dorothy Summers): Can I do for you now, sir?]. | |
Our Hidden Lives (2004) 32: Certain things had been put back on their shelves and ledges with the symmetry so beloved of Mrs. Mops. | 25 May diary in Garfield||
Dly Mirror 2 June 7/3: The ‘Mrs Mopps’ [...] who were ‘skivvies’ to officers’ wives [...] have laid down their brooms for ever. | ||
Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Oh I see, and this Mrs Mopp examined it did she? | ‘Yesterday Never Comes’||
Bolton Business Finder 🌐 Mrs Mopp Cleaning Services 12 Chestnut Avenue Tottington. |
2. a shop [rhy. sl.].
Cockney Rabbit. |
the hand, as used for masturbation .
Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 71: Old Mrs. Palm and her five daughters have been working overtime lately. | ||
in Tracks (Aus.) Feb. 16: I live with my true love, Dryanna Palmer (no relation to that famous lady of five daughters – Mrs. Palmer – to whom I used to resort before I met Dryanna. | ||
G’DAY 87: If she’s not keen, it may be necessary for Mrs Palm and her five daughters to take matters in hand. | ||
Lex. of Cadet Lang. 238: Mrs Palmer and her five daughters the palm of one’s hand and the five fingers thereof: essential for masturbation: hence (a euphemism for) masturbation. | ||
Sex-Lexis 🌐 visit Mrs. Palm and her 5 daughters; visit Rosy Palm and her five daughters. | ||
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 120/1: Mrs Palmer n. an act of masturbation, performed alone: ‘What do you do for sex in here, x?’ ‘I just go and see Mrs Palmerand her five daughters’. | ||
Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: Madam Palm and her five sisters euph. Wanking. As in: ‘I’m just off to bed with Madam Palm and her five sisters’. | ||
email to Guardian 7 Feb. 🌐 Just some snotty nosed little toss rats, whose closest relationship to a women is Mrs Palm and her 5 daughters. |
a condom.
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: to fight in armour, to make use of Mrs. Philip’s ware. See c—d—m. [Ibid.] Machines, Mrs. Philip’s ware. | ||
A Sale of Eng. Beauties, in the East Indies 16 May [cartoon] Mrs Phillips (the original inventor). | ||
‘Runnymede Pillar’ in Hilaria 32: That architect, old Mother Phillips I mean / Doth cases prepare of a curious structure. |
(N.Z. prison) uncut amphetamine.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 120/1: Mrs Quickly n. speed in an ‘uncut’ (i.e. pure) state. |
a washerwoman.
Author in Works (1799) I 133: Mrs. Suds, your washerwoman, makes the three half crowns. |
see Astorbilt n.
a drug dealer, presumably in white powders, i.e. narcotics.
Chicago May (1929) 260: Mrs. White — the name used to and for dope-peddlers. | ||
Traffic In Narcotics 312: Mrs. White. A drug peddler. |