subs. (tramps’).—1. Used as in quot.
1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, XIV. All I get is my kip and a clean mill tog, a pair of POLLIES and a stoock, and what few medazas I can make out of the lodgers and needies.
2. (common).—Apollinaris water.
1893. G. EGERTON, Keynotes, 59. The draught is transformed into lukewarm water, or ‘POLLY’ without the ‘dash’ in it.
1894. Illustrated Bits, 31 March, 10, 3. What is more gratifying—he could drink. Not sips of weak tea, or “POLLY,” but the Extra Sec of the right year, and plenty of it.
TO DO POLLY, verb. phr. (American prison).—To pick oakum; TO MILL DOLL (q.v.).—MATSELL (1859).
