Dimmock, money; “how are you off for DIMMOCK?” diminutive of DIME, a small foreign silver coin, in the United States 10 cents.
Dinarly, money; “NANTEE DINARLY,” I have no money, corrupted from the Lingua Franca, “NIENTE DINARO,” not a penny. Turkish, DINARI; Spanish, DINERO; Latin, DENARIUS.
Dine out, to go without dinner. “I DINED OUT to-day,” would express the same among the very lower classes that “dining with Duke Humphrey” expresses among the middle and upper.
Ding, to strike; to throw away, or get rid of anything; to pass to a confederate by throwing. Old, used in old plays.
“The butcher’s axe (like great Alcides’ bat)
Dings deadly downe ten thousand thousand flat.”
Dingy, a small boat. Generally the smallest boat carried by a ship. The g in this is pronounced hard.
Dipped, mortgaged.
Dirt, TO EAT, an expression derived from the East, nearly the same as “to eat humble (Umble) pie,” to put up with a mortification or insult.
Dirty Half-hundred, a nickname given to the 50th Regiment on account of their tattered and soiled appearance during the Peninsular War. A term to be proud of, as it implies much work and little reward.
Disguised, intoxicated. A very old term is that of “DISGUISED in drink.”