A Victorian Fable(with Glossary)
a low woman in a e
Bartlemy, to go to
o to run ao leave someone in the lurch
vertical care-grinder treadmill
co to s
marinated, to be transported; from t pickling herrings undergo in Cornwall
poll up, to to live e sex in a state of
unmarried impropriety
liver-faced adj. -- mean, cowardly
cty adj. -- infested h lice
beef-upid
cupboard-ing one wh wooden
and hollow
culver-upid
fiddle-faced adj. -- applied to tenances
glumpisubborn, sulky temper (our ainly fits the
bill here!)
squabby adj. -- fat, s and thick
dab tros bad sort (back slang)
in o be to ained a black eye, or quot;mousequot;, in the course of a
tussle
fadge, it expression meaning quot;it just doquot;, or quot;it just ;
Jerry go Nimbles diarrhoea
stun, to to astonish
streak, to to abscond
pick up ones sticks and to collect ones possessions and leave an establis
cut, to notice; to do a quot;moonligquot;
bolt, to to run away, escape
a speel on to take a trip to try
drum, to take
top of Rome home (rhyming slang)
Sten Saturday corruption of quot;S-in Saturdayquot;; tween Good
Friday and Easter Sunday
worm policeman
pin, to to arrest, to apprehend
scaly adj. -- unpleasant, disgusting
shaver young person
tom an