Limehouse, v.

[Limehouse, a district in the east of London.]
intr. To make fiery (political) speeches such as Mr. Lloyd George made at Limehouse in 1909. Also as n. and "Limehousing vbl. n.

1913 Daily Mail 1 Aug. 5 (heading) Mr. Lloyd George himself again.+ Limehousing at Carnarvon. 1914 National Rev. June 543 Mr. Lloyd George went to Ipswich and Limehoused on the eve of the poll. 1920 Glasgow Herald 20 Mar. 7 It is exactly what he used to say in the old Limehouse days, though his Limehousing now is of a different kind. 1920 Punch 31 Mar. 259/1 Guerrilla tactics in the House, suspension, recognition, pacifism, office, original budgeting, limehousing+, social reform. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 June 426/2 He [sc. Bonar Law] introduced+a ‘new acerbity’ into Front Bench debating, or what his opponents might have called the Conservative counterpart of ‘Limehouse’. 1937 Partridge Dict. Slang 484/1 Limehouse, ‘to use coarse, abusive language in a speech’. 1963 Punch 16 Jan. 96/1 Enough of the actor to wallow in invective—‘Limehousing’ they called it.


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