subs. (common).—1. Nonsense; anything worthless. Also KIBOSHERY.
1885. Punch, Jan. 3, p. 4. Still I wish you a ’Appy New Year, if you care for the KIBOSH, old Chappie.
2. (East End).—SNOT (q.v.).
3. (common).—Style; fashion; form; ‘the thing’: e.g., that’s the proper KIBOSH.
Verb. (common).—To spoil; TO FLUMMOX (q.v.), TO QUEER (q.v.); to bewilder or knock out of time.
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, p. 5.
| They KIBOSHED the power of the quid. | |
| Ibid., p. 50. | |
| A dig in the ribs and a ’owl, | |
| Seemed to KIBOSH the Frenchmen completely. |
TO PUT THE KIBOSH ON, verb. phr. (common).—1. To stop; to silence. (2) To wheedle or talk over. (3) To run down.
1836. DICKENS, Sketches by Boz, p. 40. ‘What do you mean by hussies?’ interrupts a champion of the other party…. (‘Hooroar,’ ejaculates a pot-boy in parenthesis, ‘put the KYE-BOSH on her, Mary!’)
1856. Punch, vol. 31., p. 139. I ope the Assistans of your pourful Penn to put the CIBOSH upon the Siety for the Perwention of wot they calls Crulety to Hanimals.
