4. in. pl. (common).—A very large shirt collar; also stick-ups and sideboards. Fr.: cache-bonbon-à-liqueur = a stick-up. 1859. Sala, Twice Round the Clock, 6 p., in Part 7. With a red face, shaven to the superlative degree of shininess, with gills white and tremendous, with a noble white waistcoat. 1884. Daily Telegraph, July 8, p. 5, c. 4. Lord Macaulay wore, to the close of his life, ‘stick-ups,’ or gills. To grease the gills.—verb. phr. (common).—To have a good meal; to wolf (q.v.). To look blue (or queer, or green) about the gills, verb. phr. (common).—To be downcast or dejected; also to suffer from the effects of a debauch. Hence, conversely, to be rosy about the gills = to be cheerful. 1836. M. Scott, Tom Cringle’s Log, ch. ii. Most of them were very white and blue in the gills when we sat down, and others of a dingy sort of whitey-brown, while they ogled the viands in a most suspicious manner. 1892. G. Manville Fenn, Witness to the Deed, ch. ii. You look precious seedy. White about the gills. A cant (or dig) in the gills, phr. (pugilists’).—A punch in the face. See Bang. Gill-flirt, subs. (old).—A wanton; a flirt. For synonyms, see Barrack Hack and Tart. 1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. 1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie. Gaultiere, a whore, punke, drab, queane, gill, flirt. 1690. B. E., Dict, of the Cant. Crew, s.v. A proud minx. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. 1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. Gilly, subs. (American).—A fool. For synonyms, see Buffle and Cabbage-head. Gilly-gaupus, subs. phr. (Scots).—A tall loutish fellow. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Gilt, subs. (popular).—1. Money. [Ger.: Geld; Du.: Geld.] English Synonyms.—Add to those under Actual:—Charms; checks; cole or coal; coliander seeds; corn in Egypt; crap; darby; dots; ducats; gingerbread; kelter; lowie; lurries; moss; oil of palms; palm-oil; peck; plums; rhino; rivets; salt; sawdust; scad; screen; scuds; shigs; soap; spoon; steven; sugar; tea-spoons; tinie. French Synonyms.—Le galtos (popular); l’odeur de gousset (obsolete); l’onguent (= palm grease, Sp., unguento; the simile is common to most languages); le morlingue (thieves’); la menouille (popular); le michon (thieves’: from miche, a loaf, cf., Loaver); les monacos (popular); le monarque (prostitutes’: primarily a five franc piece); le blé (= corn or loaver); les étoffes (thieves’). Spanish Synonyms.—La lana (= wool); la morusa (colloquial); la mosca (= the flies); lo numerario; la pelusa (= down); lo zurraco (colloquial); lo unguento de Mejico (= Mexican Grease); a’ toca teja (colloquial: ready money); caire. Italian Synonyms.—Cucchi; cuchieri; cucchielli; lugani.