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immensikoff ? Obs.|ɪˈmɛnsɪkɒf|
[See quot. 1896.]
Jocular name for a heavy overcoat.
1870D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel xxxiv. 504 The chorus..of a popular street and music-hall song, which every one is now humming in London..as follows: ‘..I fancy I'm a Toff; From top to toe I really think I looks—Immensekoff.’ 1889Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 6/1 Heavy swells clad in Immensikoffs, which is the slang term, I believe, for those very fine and large fur robes affected by men about town. 1896Farmer & Henley Slang IV. 3/1 Immensikoff, a fur-lined overcoat. From the burden of a song, ‘The Shoreditch Toff’, sung (c 1868) by the late Arthur Lloyd, who described himself as Immensikoff, and wore an upper garment heavily trimmed with fur. 1911A. Bennett Hilda Lessways i. vii. 70 His white muffler and large overcoat (which Dayson called an ‘immensikoff’). |