flatch adj.
half, usu. in comb. below.
In compounds
tipsy, mildly drunk.
, | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. | |
(con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 23/2: Flatch kanurd ... Half-drunk. | ||
Leeds Times 28 Mar. 6/5: Somebody suggested that Cuttie was probably ‘flatch kennard’ by this time. | ||
press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 43/2: When a bloke is flatch kennurd the booze pushers will give him any rot in the house, and that’s very hard lines. |
a halfpenny.
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 127: FLATCH YENEP, a halfpenny. | ||
(con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 23/1: Yenep-flatch ... Three half-pence. | ||
Sl. Dict. | ||
Derby Dly Teleg. 7 Aug. 6/4: Back-slang [...] of which the costermongers of London boast [...] flatchyennep (halfpenny), nos-rap (parson), and kirb (brick). |