rhinocerical adj.
well-off, wealthy.
Squire of Alsatia I i: Thou shalt be rhinocerical, my lad, thou shalt. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Rhinoceral c. full of Money. The Cull is Rhinoceral, c. the Fop is full of Money. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Dict. Sl. and Cant. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
(con. 1737–9) Rookwood (1857) 187: Your old dad, Sir Piers (God help him!), had the gingerbread, that I know; he was, as we say, a regular rhino-cerical cull. | ||
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) 199: RHINOCERAL, rich, wealthy, abounding in rhino. | ||
Sl. Dict. |