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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’.at Isle of Wight, adj.
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’. Wkly Mail (Cardiff) 12 Sept. 2/6: ‘I had the guv’nor’s brown boots and a red ‘stuke’ which I sold to a chap for a ‘tanner.’ Mr. Jackson (clerk): What is a stuke? Detective Scrimshaw: That is slang for a silk handkerchief .at stook, n.
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