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ˈshake-bag Obs. exc. dial.
[f. shake v.]
1. Cock-fighting. (See quots. 1688, 1709). Cf. shackbag 2.
1663State-Scuffle 3 And when two shake-bags are thrown out, To try the Battel yet in doubt, When weary still they wheele about More eager. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 252/1 A Shake-bag, is a Cock turned out of the Bag to fight another Cock, unsight, unseen, or unmatched; a Battle at a venture. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2328/4, 40 Cocks on each side will be shewn... And every Battel 5 l. each side, and 50 l. the odd Battel, and four Shake Bags for 10 l. each Cock. 1709R. H. Roy. Pastime Cock-fighting iv. 19 Yet are these Birds commonly reduced into two sorts only,..the great Game Cock, or Shake-bag, and the little Match, or Battle-Cock. 1777[T. Swift] Gamblers i. 829 The Pit shall roar, fierce Shake-bag flap the wing. 1881Isle of Wight Gloss., Shakebag, a game-cock of the largest size.
transf.1700Congreve Way of World i. 65 Wit... Will you go to a Cock-match? Sir Wil. With a Wench, Tony? Is she a shake-bag Sirrah? 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 30 Apr., I would pit her..against the best shake-bag of the whole main.
2. A rogue, scoundrel. Also (see quots. 1796 and 1823 in 3). Cf. shackbag 1.[Cf. the following: 1592 Arden of Feversham (title-p.), His..wife, who..hyred two desperate ruffins Blackwill and Shakbag, to kill him. (See also quot. 1595 shake v. 7 b.)] 1794Sporting Mag. III. 104 Being estimated..by the blacklegs, rooks and shakebags as a complete knowing one. 1796Grose Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 3), Shag-bag, or Shake⁓bag, a poor sneaking fellow, a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit.
3. attrib.
1688Holme Armoury ii. xi. 252 Shake-back [sic] Battle, is a fight between two Cocks unmatched, unsight, unseen. 1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf, Shake-bag match—in cocking; the fighting adventitiously, or guessing at weights and pairing, while the fowls are still in their respective bags. ‘A Shake-bag fellow’, if he be no pick-pocket, is at least a seedy cove. |