subs. (common).—A sausage. Also MYSTERY-BAG.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Bags of mystery; chambers of horrors; darbies; dogs (dog’s meat or dog’s body); mystery-bags; Sharp’s-Alley blood-worms; sore-leg?
1887. W. E. HENLEY, Culture in the Slums.
| ‘O crikey, Bill!’ she ses to me, she ses. | |
| ‘Look sharp,’ ses she, ‘with them there sossiges. | |
| Yea! sharp with them there BAGS OF MYSTEREE!’ |
1889. The Sportsman, 2 Feb. But the MYSTERY-BAGS of Sieur X, if we are to believe the common report, were far from being fragrant. This gentleman has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for ‘making sausages of tainted meat.’
