Schoolboy slang for lengthy talk—esp. in the nature of a reproof.
Cf. None of your jaw, you swab! (Smollett, Roderick Random.) Shut up your jaw! = Hold your tongue!
land
»He killed three of them before Harris could land him with the frying-pan.» (Three Men In A Boat 46. 22.)
»By-the-by, he landed you pretty heavily, didn’t he?» (The Prude’s Progress. 16. 20.)
A gentleman.
To land, boxers’ slang = to hit, to beat.
mash
»One day he fell in love; or to put it in the words of Teddy Tidmarsh, who brought the news to us, ‘got mashed on Gerty Lowell’.» (Sketches 55. 28.)
»It’s like ’aving an Alcock’s porous plaster mashed on yer.» (Novel Notes 212. 15.)