To give the bullet (sack, bag, kick-out, pike, road, etc.), verb. phr. (common).—To discharge from an employ. [[151]]
Give us a rest! phr. (American).—Cease talking! An injunction upon a bore.
To give nature a fillip, verb. phr. (old).—To indulge in wine or women.—B. E. (1690).
To give way, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To permit the sexual embrace: by women only.
1870. Weekly Times, 1 May. She was sorry to say, she gave way to him. (Laughter.) Mr. Maude remarked she was a foolish woman, and, being a widow, ought to have known what giving way would come to.—Complainant said of course she did, but she thought he meant to marry her.
[Other combinations will be found under the following: auctioneer; back cap; bag; bail; baste; beans; beef; biff; black eye; bone; bucket; bullet; bull’s feather; clinch; double; fig; gas; go by; gravy; hoist; hot beef; jesse; kennedy; key of the street; land; leg up; lip; miller; mitten; mouth; needle; office; points; pussy; rub of the thumb; sack; sky-high; slip; tail; taste of cream; turnips; weight; white alley; word.]
Giver, subs. (pugilistic).—A good boxer; an artist in punishment (q.v.).
1824. Reynolds, (‘Peter Corcoran’), The Fancy, p. 73. She knew a smart blow from a handsome giver Would darken lights.
Gixie, subs. (obsolete).—A wanton wench; a strumpet; an affected mincing woman.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes. Faina, a mincing, coie, nice, puling, squeamish woman, an idle huswife, a flurt, a gixgi. Also as Foina [i.e., ‘a pole-cat’; while Foirare = ‘to lust for beastly leacherie, to be salt as a bitch.’]