By the same process sky is the slang for pocket, the compound word which gave birth to it being “sky- rocket.” “Christmas” the slang for a railway guard, as “Ask the Christmas,” is, of course, from the rhyme “Christmas-card”; and “raspberry” the slang for heart, is from the rhyme “raspberry-tart.”
“Then came a knock at the Rory o'More [door],Other examples given under their proper heads.
Which made my raspberry beat.”
Chlo'e (Kloee). The shepherdess beloved by Daphnis in the pastoral romance of Longus, entitled Daphnis
and Chloë. St. Pierre's tale of Paul and Virginia is founded on the exquisite romance of Longus.
Prior
calls Mrs. Centlivre “Cloe.”
Chloe in Pope's Moral Essays (epist. ii.), Lady Suffolk, mistress of George II. “Content to dwell in decencies for ever.”