»They’re all of ’em in the parlour, the whole blooming _shoot_.» (P. Kelver II. 66. 2.) _Uneducated young man._ _Carters’ slang_ for _mob_, _medley_, _rabble_, _miscellaneous horde_. The exact meaning is probably: the whole mass of them as «_shot_» in one indiscriminate «_shoot_» from a tipping-cart or waggon into a place marked «Rubbish may be shot here» (afstjälpningsplats). (Cf. Swed.: «hela skoffan».) slack, swot »To ‘_slack_’ in this term, with the full determination of ‘_swotting_’ in the next.» (Tommy And Co. 94. 14.) _The author._ To _sweat_ or _swot_ is _schoolboy slang_ for _drudge_, _study hard_. _To slack_ means the contrary. The term «_swot_» originated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in the broad Scotch pronunciation of Dr. Wallace, one of the Professors, of the word _sweat_. Cf. »He used to despise _a swot_, as we used to call a lad with a taste for literature». (PERCY WHITE: Mr. Bailey-Martin. I.) »That’s the worst of clever little _swots_» (RUDYARD KIPLING, Stalky & Co.) spin »You have been ploughed then?» »Oh, come, you mustn’t despair. You’ve only been »_spun_», as you fellows call it, for a few months.» (The Prude’s Progr. 52. 15. 35.) _To be spun_: to be rejected in an examination = _to be plucked_ and _to be ploughed_. BAUMANN and FARMER-HENLEY call it military slang (Royal Military Academy), but here it occurs during a conversation between two medical students and their civil friends. swag »His ‘_swag_’ generally consists of an overcoat and a pair of boots.» (Novel Notes 176. 15.) _The author._ »A policeman found them afterwards, sitting on a doorstep, the ‘_swag_’ behind them in a carpet bag.» (Sketches 147. 22.) _A gentleman._ _Thieves’ slang_ for _booty_, _stolen things_; not used outside thieves’ language—except, of course, as a conscious quotation. SLANG > COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH baccy »Man works, as he thinks, for beer and _baccy_.» (T. T. T. 59. 20.) _A »minor poet.» Conversation between ladies and gentlemen._ »You had to walk ten miles to get your _baccy_.» (Three Men In A Boat 8. 8.) »He sent them out to buy his _baccy_,» (Novel Notes 80. 16.) _A young gentleman._ _Baccy_ is a vulgar form of _tobacco_, more vulgar than _bacco_. The formation of the word, with a gradual weakening of the last, unaccented syllable, is characteristic of vulgar language: _baccoᵘ_ > _baccŏ_ (or _backer_) > baccy. bally »I call the whole thing _bally_ foolishness.» (Three Men In A Boat 14. 7.) A comparatively recent coinage, it is said, of _The Sporting Times_ from the Irish _bally-hooly_. The word is used in the same manner as _blooming_ and _bloody_, i. e. as a meaningless intensive expression. _Bloody_ is an adj. used on every possible occasion by Eng. workmen, but without meaning. Schoolboys and grown-up persons of the better classes use _bally_. chip in »She took ‘the liberty _of chipping in_’, to use her own expression.» (They And I. 226. 6.)