subs. (common).—1. An unlicensed pawn-brokery; a DOLLY-SHOP (q.v.). For synonyms, see UNCLE.
1857. Morning Chronicle, 21 Dec. Proprietress of one of those iniquitous establishments called LEAVING-SHOPS.
1887. GREENWOOD, Unsentimental Journeys, II. 15. I no longer wondered to find my friend a pawnbroker! He had a hankering for it at the pig’s head period, and kept, besides the sausage-shop, a LEAVING-SHOP, in Brick-lane, St. Luke’s.
1871. Daily Telegraph, 10 Oct. A large portion of the least valuable was received in ‘dolly’ or LEAVING-SHOPS. The parties carrying them on purchased goods from whoever brought them, upon an understanding that they might be repurchased within a week or a month.
1880. GREENWOOD, Odd People in Odd Places, p. 37. There’s a little shop in the second-hand clothes line, a LEAVING-SHOP, I think they call it, in —— Street. There’s a parcel there that belongs to me, and which it will cost one and eightpence to redeem; at least, the woman promised I might redeem it in a month if I paid double what she gave me for what’s in it.
1893. Daily Chronicle, 9 Jan., p. 9, col. 1. Two pawnbrokers, who appeared to have acted in a most reckless manner, and to a Mrs. Waldey, who kept what was known as a LEAVING SHOP.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see MONOSYLLABLE.
