Ajax

Quick meaning: Ajax is a preposition meaning (Polari) Nearby, over there.

Meaning

(Polari) Nearby, over there.

More Meanings

1. (now rare, historical) A toilet.
2. (poker slang) An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

Example Sentences

[O]oh[,] will just vada that filiomi ajax[.]

Oh, vada well that omee-palone ajax who just trolled in[.]

In the bar we would stand with our sisters, varda (look at) the bona cartes (male genitals) on the butch homme (man, pronounced o-me) ajax (nearby), who, if we fluttered our ogle riahs (eye lashes) at him sweetly, might just troll over to offer a light for the unlit vogue (cigarette) clenched between out teeth. [The explanations in round brackets are by Peter Burton]

I say this much of this action, that it is requisite we should remit the same unto certaine prescribed night-houres, and by custome (as I have done) force and subject our selves unto it; But not (as I have done), growing in yeeres, strictly tie himselfe to the care of a particular convenient place, and of a commodious Ajax or easie close-stoole for that purpose, and make it troublesome with long sitting and nice observation.

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