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O BE JOYFUL . I'll make you sing O be joyful on the other side of your mouth; a threat, implying the party threatened will be made to cry. To sing O be easy; to appear contented when one has cause to complain, and dare not.
OAF . A silly fellow.
OAFISH . Simple.
OAK . A rich maa, a man of good substance and credit. To sport oak; to shut the outward door of a student's room at college. An oaken towel; an oaken cudgel. To rub a man down with an oaken towel; to beat him.
OAR . To put in one's oar; to intermeddle, or give an opinion unasked: as, To be sure, you must put in your oar!
OATHS . The favourite oaths of the thieves of the present day are, 'God strike me blind!' 'I wish my bloody eyes may drop out if it is not true!' 'So help me God!' 'Bloody end to me!'
OATS . He has sowed his wild oats; he is staid, or sober, having left off his wild tricks.
OBSTROPULOUS . Vulgar misnomer of OBSTREPEROUS: as, I was going my rounds, and found this here gemman very obstropulous, whereof I comprehended him as an auspicious parson.
OCCUPY . To occupy a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her.
ODD-COME-SHORTLYS . I'll do it one of these odd-come-shortly's; I will do it some time or another.
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