Sap, or SAPSCULL, a poor green simpleton, with no heart for work.
Sappy, soft, foolish, namby-pamby, milk-and-watery. “It’s such a SAPPY book.”
Satin, gin; “a yard of SATIN,” a glass of gin. Term used by females on make-believe errands, when the real object of their departure from home is to replenish the private bottle. With servants the words “tape” and “ribbon” are more common, the purchase of these feminine requirements being the general excuse for asking to “run out for a little while.” See [WHITE SATIN].
Saucebox, a pert young person. In low life it also signifies the mouth.
Save, to give part of one bet for part of another. A. and B. have backed different horses, and they agree that in the event of either one winning he shall give the other, say, £5. This is called “SAVING a fiver,” and generally is done when scratchings and knockings-out have left the field so that one of the two speculators must be a winner. The practice also obtains much in competitions decided in heats or rounds, in the course of which backers and layers comparing their prospects often “SAVE a bit” with each other. Saving is, therefore, a form of hedging.
Saveloy, a sausage of bread and chopped beef smoked, a minor kind of [POLONY], which see.
Savvey, to know; “do you SAVVEY that?” Spanish, SABE. In the nigger and Anglo-Chinese patois, this is SABBY, “me no SABBY.” It is a general word among the lower classes all over the world. It also means acuteness or cleverness; as, “That fellow has plenty of SAVVEY.”
Saw, a term at whist. A SAW is established when two partners alternately trump a suit, played to each other for the express purpose.
Saw your timber, “be off!” equivalent to “cut your stick.” Occasionally varied, with mock refinement, to “amputate your mahogany.” See [CUT].
Sawbones, a surgeon.