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Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as ‘apples and pears’ for stairs, ‘Cain and Abel’ for table.at Cain and Abel, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as ‘apples and pears’ for stairs, ‘Cain and Abel’ for table. Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 129: Part of the parish was locally and expressively called ‘The Dusthole,’ and formed an Alsatia for vice and crime.at Alsatia, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as ‘needle and thread’ for bread, ‘you and me’ for tea, ‘Jim Skinner’ for dinner.at you and me, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as ‘needle and thread’ for bread, ‘you and me’ for tea, ‘Jim Skinner’ for dinner.at needle and thread, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] ‘bar’ for a sovereign.at bar, n.1
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as [...] ‘brussel-sprout’ for boy scout.at brussel sprout, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: The plainly modern ‘monkey on a gridiron’ for cyclist, [...] and perhaps ‘churcher’ for a threepenny bit appealed to me as a cleric.at churcher, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] coal for a penny.at cole, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as [...] ‘Crimea’ for beer, or even ‘brussel-sprout’ for boy scout.at crimea, n.2
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] ‘dadla’ or ‘fadger’ for a farthing.at daddler, n.2
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as [...] ‘Darky [sic] kelly’ for belly.at darby kelly, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] ‘dadla’ or ‘fadger’ for a farthing.at fadger, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: The plainly modern ‘monkey on a gridiron’ for cyclist, or ‘hog in armour’ for a district messenger boy .at hog in armour (n.) under hog, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: In old cant ‘hop the Charlie’ was the equivalent of to decamp.at hop the charley (v.) under hop, v.1
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as ‘needle and thread’ for bread, ‘you and me’ for tea, ‘Jim Skinner’ for dinner.at jimmy skinner, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as ‘jossop’ for broth.at jossop, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] ‘mingee’ for greedy.at mingy, adj.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: The plainly modern ‘monkey on a gridiron’ for cyclist, [...] and perhaps ‘churcher’ for a threepenny bit appealed to me as a cleric.at monkey on a gridiron (n.) under monkey, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: The plainly modern ‘monkey on a gridiron’ for cyclist, [...] and ‘mud-pusher’ for M.P. at mud pusher (n.) under mud, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: ‘Piano’ for ribs of beef, and perhaps ‘churcher’ for a threepenny bit appealed to me as a cleric.at piano, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: ‘Quidlet,’ for half a sovereign.at quidlet, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] ‘scatty’ for mad.at scatty, adj.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] ‘shont’ for a foreigner.at shont, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 70: Eight ounces were given instead of the wholemeal ‘sixer’ made in Coldbath Fields.at sixer, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: ‘Stever,’ for a coin.at stiver, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: ‘Tush’ for money, would be an abbreviation of ‘tusheroon,’ which in old cant, and also tinker dialect, signified a crown.at tosheroon, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] ‘water bonse’ for a cry baby .at water-bonse (n.) under water, n.1
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 254: Other [words] were new to me, such as [...] ‘wet sack’ for a dunce.at wet sack (n.) under wet, adj.1
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 252: Rhyming slang and back slang, invented and chiefly used by costermongers, to whom, ‘daisy roots’ is a substitute for the word boots, and ‘yennep’ for a penny.at yennep, n.
Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 151: There are more pitiable folks who ‘do’ Switzerland and are ‘done’ themselves.at do, v.2
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