whither-go-ye n.
1. (mid-17C) diarrhoea.
Mercurius Democritus 3-10 Aug. 95: Rotten Eggs or Sea-wet Sugar, that many times make the Guests troubled with the whither-go-ye. |
2. a wife.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Whether-go-ye a Wife. | ||
New Canting Dict. n.p.: whither-D’ye-go an insolent prescribing, very, Wife. | ||
Laugh and Be Fat 27: Leaving the pre-suppos’d Gelding to convince his Whither do-go, that he had more Wit in his Anger, than to revenge himself of an ill Tongue, by burning his Peace-maker. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |