Hard-baked, adj. (old).—1. Constipated.
1823. Jon Bee, Dict. of Turf, s.v.
2. (common).—Stern; unflinching; strong.
1847. Robb, Squatter Life, p. 73. It’s my opinion, these squirtish kind a fellars ain’t perticular hard-baked.
Hard-bargain (or Case), subs. (common).—1. A lazy fellow; a bad-egg (q.v.); a skulker. One of the Queen’s Hard-bargains = a bad soldier.
1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West, p. 71. La Bonté had lost all traces of civilised humanity, and might justly claim to be considered as hard a case as any of the mountaineers then present.
1888. Lynch, Mountain Mystery, ch. xliii. A fellow who comes and goes between here and Rockville, generally considered a hard case, and believed to be more outlaw than miner.
2. (trade).—A defaulting debtor.
3. (nautical).—A brutal mate or officer. Also hard-horse. [[269]]
Hard-bit (or Bit of Hard), subs. (venery).—1. The penis in erection; whence (2), for women, the act of connection.