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Weak and the Wicked 119: I unstowed me akkers in a hash-house to buy a floozy a plate o’ scoff.at acker, n.1
Weak and the Wicked 119: I unstowed me akkers in a hash-house to buy a floozy a plate o’ scoff. Weak and the Wicked 51: Words such as [...] ‘jankers’, ‘adrift’ and ‘hatter’ were well-worn synonyms for [...] ‘punishments’, ‘desertion’, and ‘homosexual’.at adrift, adj.
Weak and the Wicked 51: Words such as [...] ‘adrift’ and ‘hatter’ were well-worn synonyms for [...] ‘desertion’, and ‘homosexual’.at brown-hatter, n.
Weak and the Wicked 112: ‘The Bitcher’ [so-called] because he was always discontented with his lot and never let anyone forget it; ‘Dronkie’ because of his taste for liquor.at dronkie, n.
Weak and the Wicked 120: If a merchant sailor complained that he did not like his ship because ‘she’s a bloody two-stacked gesseiner,’ [...] I knew that in his opinion, his ship is a two-funnelled garbage-can.at gessein, v.
Weak and the Wicked 51: Words such as [...] ‘jankers’, ‘adrift’ and ‘hatter’ were well-worn synonyms for [...] ‘punishments’, ‘desertion’, and ‘homosexual’.at on jankers under jankers, n.
Weak and the Wicked 601: ‘Yes, that disgusting moustache,’ I was callously brutal. ‘Shave it off’ [...] ‘Ask of me anything else you will, but the old mousie stays.’.at mouser, n.
Weak and the Wicked 139: ‘Bloody copper’s nark,’ she spat out in a high-pitched East End nasal whine.at nark, n.1
Weak and the Wicked 122: She was a ’ell o’ a ship, a real rat trap.at rat trap, n.1
Weak and the Wicked 110: Koos was the typical ‘skolly-boy’ type.at skolly, n.
Weak and the Wicked 120: Chiefie’s a damn snide who’s gotta be clocked.at snide, n.
Weak and the Wicked 134: Prostitutes (‘Toms’ to the British police) take up their beats according to the type of services they are prepared to render.at tom, n.3
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