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by Virginia Frances Schwartz


  flummox: to confuse

  flush: a rush of stong feelings

  full corned: drunk

  go on the lift: steal

  gruel: a thin, porridgelike soup

  *hold a candle to the devil: someone as evil as the devil

  ladybird: a prostitute

  mad as hops: excitable

  night walker: a prostitute

  *pigeon-eyed: innocent

  *pigeonhole: to label

  *prigging: thieving

  *round the clock: never stopping

  sauce-box: a talkative mouth

  *skilly: a thin broth of oatmeal and water

  smasher: someone who passes bad money

  smash-up: a battle to the end

  sneak: thief

  *sticky fingers: one with a tendency to steal

  tart: a common girl with loose morals

  *thick as thieves: close friends or coconspirators

  toke: dry bread

  tool: to pick a pocket

  tosher: a sewer-hunter in the Victorian Eva

  ·• SOURCES •·

  Main source: Passing English of the Victorian Era by James Redding

  Ware (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London, 1909)

 

 

 


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