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ˈthorough-stitch, ˈthrough-stitch, n., adv. and a. Obs. exc. dial.
[f. thorough adv. + stitch n.]
†A. n. ? A stitch drawn right through the stuff; hence fig. in reference to thoroughness of action: cf. B. Obs. rare.
a1569A. Kingsmill Man's Est. xv. (1580) 124 Now there fore to knitte vppe the knot, and to make a through stitch. 1663Cowley Cutter Colman St. ii. viii, When I do a business, I'm for through-stich; I'm through pac'd.
B. adv. Right through, through to the end; thoroughly, completely; almost always in phr. to go thorough-stitch (with), to perform something thoroughly, carry it out completely and effectually, go through with: ‘a tailor's expression for finishing any thing once begun’ (Egan Slang Dict. 1823).
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse, Apol. (Arb.) 68 Philippe of Macedon tooke vpon him to reason with a new Musition..and was not able to go thorowe stitche. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden 37 That wee might haue made round worke, and gone thorough stitch. 1634Ford Perkin Warbeck ii. iii, He that threads his needle with the sharp eyes of industry shall in good time go throughstitch with the new suit of preferment. 1685Evelyn Diary 22 May, The..Cheif Justice Jefferies..went thorough stitch in that tribunal. 1694R. L'Estrange Fables cxxxiii. (1714) 150 'Tis Perseverance alone that can carry us Thorough-Stitch. 1723Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 216 A Man of Honour enters into a Conspiracy with others to murder a King; he is obliged to go thorough Stich with it. 1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 147 We have gone too far to retreat,..we must e'en go thorough⁓stitch. 1904Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Thorough, She's means to do the place up thorough-stitch.
C. adj. Thoroughgoing, out-and-out. ? Obs.
c1685in Verney Memoirs (1907) II. 396 A thorough-stitch enemy to the crown. 1786A. Gib Sacr. Contempl. 402 It may not suit with his courage or his prudence to be thorough-stitch with it. 1825Hazlitt Spirit of Age 335 He..must make thorough-stitch work of it. 1828Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 785 [He] seems to have no thorough-stitch advocate in the London press.
Hence † ˈthorough-stitched, ˈthrough-stitched a. = C.
1682A. Behn City Heiress 35 You are resolv'd to make a through-stitcht Robbery on't. 1799T. Twining in Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 233 What a painstaking, thorough-paced, thorough-stitched man you are when you set about anything! |