A person of great wealth or prominence
…can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose style or manner…
One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. “A bilious old nabob.” –Macaulay.
More hog than gentleman. A saying of any low pretender to precedency.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A great eater.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A footman: from the variety of colours in the liveries and trimming of gentlemen of that cloth.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A taylor or stay-maker.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A taylor.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A highwayman.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A false evidence, one that is ready to swear any thing for hire.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
