Isle of Wight adj.
1. all right.
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘When they’re done in [...] you don’t feel at all isle o’ wight’. | ||
Wkly Mail (Cardiff) 26 July 2/5: Smith heard the prisoner remark to Galloway. ‘Can you pipe the slang; it is all Isle of Wight; bone it,’ which meant, ‘Can you steal [sic] the chain; it is all right; steal it’. | ||
Dict. of Rhy. Sl. | ||
Signs of Crime 189: Isle of Wight All right, ‘OK’. | ||
Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl. |
2. light.
Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl. |
3. tipsy [= tight adj. (5)].
Up the Frog. |
4. mean, grasping [= tight adj. (3a)].
Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl. |