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This was a fairly innocuous much loved childrens toy for most of the last century until political correctness stepped in and demanded they be banned. The reason given was that these dolls were created to look more like the 'minstrels' from 'down south' than a true representation of the facial features of black africans! Well ok that might be true true, but racially denigrating?? I think not! A further result of this idiocy was that Robertsons Jams (who had been using the golliwog symbol for a hundred years was subject to repeated attempts to force them to remove the symbol from their jams and marmalades. Trouble is all the fuss did was to draw attention to the negative aspects and the creation of chants such as: get back on your jam jar, get back on your jam jar, la la la la,la la la la, (then repeated once more).
Robertson Hare was London Cockney rhyming slang for a pear.
Considered to be one of the first published dictionary of gay slang in English. [The Queen's Vernacular; a Gay Lexicon. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. By Bruce Rodgers. Republished in 1979 under the new title,Gay Talk by Paragon Books New York. The dictionary of gay, chiefly 1950's and 1960's American slang, largely drawn from speech. {Roberts Note: fortunately I didn't discover this Dictionary until 1988, and was well on the way to having a Dictionary of my own. If I would have known that this, Dictionary already had been done, I would not have started the project.)
Burke and Hare is London Cockney rhyming slang for a chair.
Hare and Hound is London Cockney rhyming slang for a round of drinks (round).
Very angry.
British, short for Golliwogg, a stuffed doll that mimicked Blacks. Recently was dropped (ref) as the logo used on jars of Robertson's jams and marmalades.
stupid, foolish (of an idea or a plan)
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To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
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A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot.
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A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.
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The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.
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A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).
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A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren.
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To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.
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To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.
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A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.
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The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.
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A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.
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The hare kangaroo.
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The dung of sheep or hares.
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A young herring (Clupea harengus).
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