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The Romany Rye choose

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[UK] G. Borrow Romany Rye I 82: About two o’clock, the chals and chies sat down and partook of the fare.
at chai, n.1
[UK] G. Borrow Romany Rye I 82: On the following day there was much feasting amongst the Romany chals.
at chal, n.
[UK] G. Borrow Romany Rye I 289: Mounted police to ride after the ruffians and drag them by the scruff of the neck to the next clink.
at clink, n.1
[UK] G. Borrow Romany Rye I 286: There is nothing like going the whole hog.
at go the whole hog (v.) under whole hog, n.
[UK] G. Borrow Romany Rye I 326: Why, that red-haired Jack Priest, and that idiotic parson.
at jack papish (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] G. Borrow Romany Rye 90: My grandfather was a shorter, and my father was a smasher, the one was scragged, and the other lagged.
at shorter, n.
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