1912 ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 18: The ‘fakement’— that’s what he called the process he was employing— was resorted to, he informed me with a grin, to ‘do the buffer’.at fakement, n.
1912 ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 216: I’m going to buy some cricket things with my half-quid.at half-a-quid (n.) under quid, n.
1912 ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 38: Now, I suppose, I shall be sent trotting all over the place with your rotten bits of sticks and rubbishy plated stuff.at rubbish, adj.
1912 ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 216: ‘What on earth is half-a-quid?’ ‘Half-a-thick — I mean sovereign,’ said the youth.at half-thick (’un) (n.) under thick ’un, n.