subs. (common).—An affidavit: also AFFIDAVY; DAVY; and (occasionally) AFTERDAVY.
1859. H. KINGSLEY, Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn. He is engaged in receiving the ‘AFTERDAVY’ of a man who got his head broke by a tinker.
1865. DICKENS, Our Mutual Friend (C.D. ed.), 94. The visitor … doggedly muttered, ‘ALFRED DAVID.’ ‘Is that your name?’… ‘My name?… No; I want to take an ALFRED DAVID.’
c. 1880. HARRY ADAMS, Music Hall Song, ‘Blighted Love.’ And I’ll take my ALFRED DAVID hot, She don’t catch me there again.
