verb. (common).—To desist; to set aside; TO STOW IT: e.g., TO STASH PRIGGING = to turn honest; TO STASH ONE’S PATTER = to hold one’s tongue; TO STASH THE LUSH = to stop BOOZING (q.v.).
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. WANTED … It becomes the latter [a thief] to keep out of the way … until he … can find means to STASH the business through the medium of Mr. Palmer.
1827. BULWER-LYTTON, Pelham, lxxxii. STASH the lush … and toddle off to Ruggins.
1830. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Living Picture of London. What to the heel do you STASH at? I’ll chive you.
1841. LEMAN REDE, Sixteen-String Jack, i. 6. STASH your patter and come along.
