subs. (provincial).—A Liverpudlian: also DICKY SAM.
TO STAND SAM, verb. phr. (common).—To pay the shot; TO TREAT (q.v.).
1821. W. T. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry, iii. 5. Landlady, serve them with a glass of tape, all round; and I’ll STAND SAMMY.
1834. W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, IV. ii. I must insist upon STANDING SAM upon the present occasion.
1876. C. HINDLEY, ed. The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, 123. He had perforce to STAND ‘SAM’ for the lot.
1885. W. BLACK, White Heather, xxxii. There’s plenty ready TO STAND SAM, now that Ronald is kent as a writer o’ poetry.
1887. W. E. HENLEY, Villon’s Good-Night, 2.
| Likewise you molls that flash your bubs | |
| For swells to spot and STAND YOU SAM. |
1890. Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette, 8 Feb. I’ll STAND SAM for a week at Brighton for both of us.
1893. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 36, ‘At the Play.’ And if sometimes P. J. do STAND SAM, why I ain’t one to give myself hairs.
