Dash, to jot down suddenly. “Things I have DASHED off at a moment’s notice.”
Dash, fire, vigour, manliness. Literary and artistic work is often said to be full of DASH.
Dash, an ejaculation, as “DASH my wig!” “DASH my buttons!” A relic of the attempts made, when cursing was fashionable, to be in the mode without using “bad words.”
Dashing, showy, fast.
Daub, in low language, an artist. Also a badly painted picture.
David’s sow, “as drunk as DAVID’S sow,” i.e., beastly drunk. See origin of the phrase in Grose’s Dictionary.
Davy, “on my DAVY,” on my affidavit, of which it is a vulgar corruption. Latterly DAVY has become synonymous in street language with the name of the Deity; “so help me DAVY,” generally rendered, “swelp my DAVY.” Slang version of the conclusion of the oath usually exacted of witnesses.
Davy’s locker, or Davy Jones’s locker, the sea, the common receptacle for all things thrown overboard;—a nautical phrase for death, is “gone to Davy Jones’s locker,” which there means the other world.—See [DUFFY].
Dawdle, to loiter, or fritter away time.
Dawk, the post.—Anglo-Indian.