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Liverpool|ˈlɪvəpuːl|
[The name of an English city on the River Mersey.]
1. Applied attrib. to the delftware and porcelain manufactured in Liverpool in the eighteenth century. Also ellipt.
1863W. Chaffers Marks Pott. & Porc. 130 Liverpool. A pottery, called Herculaneum, was established on the Mersey by Richard Abbey, in 1794. 1869C. Schreiber Jrnl. 5 Nov. (1911) I. 60 A Liverpool printed mug of Gen. Wolfe. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 131/2 Liverpool is at times difficult to distinguish from Bristol. 1964M. Drabble Garrick Year iv. 56 One of my Liverpool ware teapots was broken. 1972Country Life 6 Jan. 21/3 Liverpool or Delft tiles decorate the fireplace surround. 1972Collector's Guide Aug. 9/1 (Advt.), An extremely rare Liverpool Vase, c. 1760 (William Ball's factory).
2. Special combs.: Liverpool button (see quot. 1896); Liverpool house Naut., a deck-house; Liverpool pantile, a hard ship's biscuit; Liverpool pennant (see quot. 1933); Liverpool sound, the music, popular in the early 1960s, played by pop singers and groups in Liverpool, chiefly the Beatles; Liverpool weather Naut. colloq., windy and ‘dirty’ weather.
1896Farmer & Henley Slang IV. 212/1 Liverpool-button, a kind of toggle used by sailors when they lose a button. 1908E. Noble Grain Carriers iii. i. 146 Shanghaied crews are usually persons dressed in a rag and a Liverpool button.
1869in C. N. Longridge Cutty Sark (1933) ii. 205 Liverpool house fitted on centre 30 feet long. 1948R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 422 Liverpool house, a superstructure extending from side to side and situated amidships in large (steel built) sailing vessels.
1902B. Lubbock Round the Horn viii. 311 He handed me a regular bad-looking Liverpool pantile from the bread-barge. 1925B. Hayes Hull Down iii. 28 The biscuits, commonly called ‘Liverpool pantiles’, were so hard you could break them only with a hammer. 1933J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 287 Liverpool pennants, rope yarns used instead of buttons. 1963Daily Mail 20 Sept. 10/4 It's been boys, boys, boys from Merseyside who have dominated pop music since the ‘Liverpool sound’ started to carry all before it towards the end of last year. 1963Daily Tel. 10 Dec. 13 A show by the Beatles, the ‘Liverpool sound’ group, was not typical of ‘pop’ concerts.
1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang, Liverpool weather. 1934G. H. Grant Consigned to Davy Jones (1935) xviii. 260 If we was on a windbag..it would be what we calls Liverpool weather.
▸ Liverpool kiss n. slang (orig. U.S. Naut., now chiefly Austral. and N.Z.) a blow delivered to the head or face, esp. a headbutt (cf. Glasgow kiss n.).
1944Amer. Speech 19 106 A *Liverpool kiss is a kick in the chin. 1957G. Kersh Fowler's End ii. 31 You know what it is, a Liverpool Kiss? Make a quick grab for the lapels o' the coat, an' pull somebody forward. At the same time bunt 'im in the face miv the top o' your 'ead an' kick 'im in the balls miv your knee. 1963L. L'Amour Fallon vi. 105 He ducked inside another punch, drove his head against Maloon's chest, then ripped up with his skull in the vicious ‘Liverpool kiss’ known to rough-and-tumble fighters everywhere. Maloon's head was smashed back by the impact of the skull under the chin. 1983Times 28 June 21/6 [In Christchurch, New Zealand] Bainbridge was twice discovered..in the act of indulging the Liverpool kiss. 1999Australian (Nexis) 25 Jan. 25 He responded with a magnificent Liverpool kiss. |