slam2+ (slam)

[Origin obscure.] An old game at cards. Ruffe, slam, trump, noddy, whisk, hole, sant, new-cut, Unto the keeping of foure knaves he'l put. John Taylor , Works (1630). ( Nares .) At Post and Paire, or Slam , Tom Tuck would play This Christmas, but his want wherwith says nay. Herrick, Upon Tuck. slam3 (slam), n . [Cf. D. slomp = G. schlampe , a slattern ( schlampen , be dirty or slovenly); prob. a nasalized form, slap = G. schlaff = Dan. slap = Sw. slapp , lax, loose, lazy. Cf. slamkin .] An ill-shaped, shambling fellow. Mi Hoyden. I don't like my lord's shapes, nurse. Nurse. Why in good truly, as a body may say, he is but a slam . Vanbrugh , The Relapse, v. 5. slam-bang (slam'bang'), adv. and a. Same as IMG:content-1249.png:[blocks in formation]