subs. (rhyming slang).—1. Mutton.
2. (tailors’).—A journeyman tailor: in contempt.
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, III., p. 117. And there I did Jeremiah Stitchem to his BILLY BUTTON. Ibid., p. 142: A laughable sketch entitled BILLY BUTTON’S ride to Brentford, and I used to be Jeremiah Stitchem, a servant of BILLY BUTTON’S, that comes for a ‘sitiation.’
