A method of indicating words by a rhyming or quasi-rhyming substitute; e.g., ABRAHAM’S WILLING = shilling; STAND-AND-SHIVER = river; ELEPHANT’S TRUNK = drunk; PENNY-COME-QUICK = trick; and so forth. First in vogue during the late 1850s, but artistically developed of late years by The Sporting Times or Pink ’Un. With use the rhyme has been suppressed by experts: e.g., I’M-SO-FRISKY = whiskey becomes I’M-SO, while FLOUNDER-AND-DAB = cab is merely FLOUNDER.
