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deady slang.|ˈdɛdɪ|
A name for gin, or for a particular quality of gin.[So called app. from the name of the distiller. The London Directory for 1812 has D. Deady, Distiller and Brandy-merchant, Sol's Row, Tottenham Court Rd.] [1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 138 At a public house where Sam had been copiously sipping Deady's max.] 1819T. Moore Tom Crib's Mem. Congress App., To quaff Our Deady o'er some State Affairs. a1843Southey Doctor Interchapter xvi. (D.), Some of the whole-hoggery in the House of Commons he would designate by Deady, or Wet and Heavy; some by weak tea, others by Blue-Ruin. |