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Although those present were too polite to split their sides and roll about in hysterics, they were obviously amused, for, as was explained to me, I had picked the wrong metaphor: spend a penny is a Briticism for `go to the loo,' or, as they say in America, `the bathroom.
It is not entirely accurate to describe Schur's book as a dictionary, for, although it is in alphabetical order (by Briticism, with the American equivalent in the Index), it combines definitions with descriptions of cultural phenomena (as in the entry for the Ashes , which needs an explanation rather than a mere definition).
As punt is a Briticism for gamble, punter in the sense of gambler is a Briticism; there are many US equivalents, the most common being sucker .—Editor]
Should be labeled as a Briticism.
On the day I picked up the OEED to review, Philip Howard's feature, Word-Watching, in The Times [11 November 1991], used in his definition of cicisbeism the word poodle-faker, which, as near as I can make out, is an obscure or archaic Briticism, possibly military slang.