MISS POLLY GLOT'S DICTIONARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1873, 17 January 1870, Page 7

MISS POLLY GLOT'S DICTIONARY.

Faint, v.n.—To go through a certain performance, to give a series of imitations as of convulsions, prostrations, insensibility, for the : purpose of getting one's own way, or putting an end to a dispute. Synodymous with feint. Fair (Fancy), n. —A meeting or gathering, at •which ladies, stand behind counters and sell useless knick-knacks at prices nearly as exorbi- \ taut as those of awestendmiliner. The epithet fancy is applied to it, because the fair amateur dealers really give their services for the purpose ■ of being conspicuous and displaying themselves to advantage, -whereas they fancy they, are doing so for some charitable purpose. Fares, n.—l. The fact of a lady's coming with a fearfully red face, the result of too great a proximity to the kitchen fire, into the room where her guests are assembled, and shortly . after, ringing to know if dinner will soon be ," ready, as though she had not been superintending it. herself, and did not know. 2. The performance of one of Shakespeare's tragedies by -nearly any metropolitan company at the r : presentday. ■ Fashion, n. —The Juggernaut of modern social life.' Its votaries will go through any amount of pain (see boots, tight-lacing), and even defy death itself (see ball;' pulmonary complaints), or ruin their dearest relatives, a welT as themselves; when engaged in. the rites of their idol; nay ridicule itself has no terros for'them'when engaged in the horrible worship of fashion. •' Fast eirl, n. —A name given to the Ritualistic girl of the period, who keeps fasts and vigils. Fright, n; —A term employed by women to designate any of their sex better dresse than themselves.