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Soap and lather is London Cockney rhyming slang for father.
A water-saving evolution in which one attempts to get clean while using as little water as possible. Basically, you turn on the shower for a few seconds to wet yourself down. Then, turn off the shower and lather everything up. Then, you turn the shower back on and rinse off.
Lather is slang for semen.
To beat.
How's your father is British slang for the penis.How's your father is British slang for sexual intercourse.How's your father is British slang for a bad state of affairs.How's your father is British slang for something nameless, or for which the name has been forgotten.How's your father is London Cockney rhyming slang for lather.How's your father is London Cockney rhyming slang for palaver.
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v. t.
To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
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Alt. of Lathreeve
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To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
v. i.
To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
n.
Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
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A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.
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A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
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A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.
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