touch-me n.
1. as proper name, Bob.
Sporting Times 29 Nov. 1/1: Touch Me On The Nob. He has olivered. He took his daisy roots off his plates of meat and threw them in my chivy. |
2. one shilling (5p).
Mirror of Life 27 July 14/2: ‘I'll bet a wheel or touch me, / He’s some broady in his sky’. | ||
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 3 Aug. 4/1: He borrows a 'touch me' from a pal [...] 'touch me on the knob' (bob or shilling0. | ||
Advertiser (Adelaide) 20 Oct. 20/9: The same coin [i.e. a shilling] is also known as a ‘touch-me’, short for ‘touch me on the nob’, the rhyming slang for bob. | ||
Sporting Times 89: An’, s’elp me, I’d ‘ardly got a touch-me in my sky, much less an amesjay to pay for me saint an’ sinner! |