10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «DRATCHELL» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs
Dratchell, sb. diminutive of ' drudge ' (?), a slut ; helplessly untidy woman. " She'll
be a poor dratchell by then she's thirty." — Adam Bede, c. 20. Draw cuts, v. a. to
draw lots. " Then I'll draw cuts and take my fate." Bessy Bell and Mary Gray.
Arthur Benoni Evans, Sebastian Evans, 1881
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A Warwickshire word-book: comprising obsolescent and dialect ...
93. Cole, Lat. Diet., interprets ' young dowl ' by ' lanugo.' Midlands. Downy [doun-
e], adj. Crafty. Vulg. Shrop. Dratchell [dratch-1], sb. A slattern. Cf. Drotohell. ' She'
ll be a poor dratchell by then she's thirty.' — Adam Bede, ch. xx (quoted in Leic.
93. Cole, Lat. Diet., interprets ' young dowl ' by ' lanugo.' Midlands. Downy [doun-
e], adj. Crafty. Vulg. Shrop. Dratchell [dratch-1], sb. A slattern. Cf. Drotchell. ' She'll
be a poor dratchell by then she's thirty.' — Adam Bede, ch. xx (quoted in Leie.
English Dialect Society, 1896
She 's not a common flaunting dratchell, I can see that. She looks like a
respectable country girl, and she comes from a good way off, to judge by her
tongue. She talks something like that ostler we had that come from the north : he
was as ...
George Eliot, John Walter Cross, 1893
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English, containing ...
Somerset. Drashel, s. (1) A threshold. (2) A flail. West. Drastes, s. (A.-S.) Dregs;
refuse; lees of wine. Drat. (1) An imprecation. An abbreviation of God rot ! (2) pres
. t. Dreadeth. Dratchell, s. A dirty, slovenly person. Warm. Drate, ». To drawl.
North ...
She'll be a poor dratchell by then she's thirty, a-marr'in' a-that'n, afore her teeth's
all come." Adam walked so fast that he was at the yard gate before seven. Martin
Poyser and the grandfather were not yet come in from the meadow : every one ...
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Adam Bede by George Eliot
too, afore we war married; an' young enough too. She'll be a poor dratchell by
then she's thirty, a-marr'~ in' a-that'n, afore her teeth's all come.” Adam walked so
fast that he was at the yard gate before seven. Martin Poyser and the grandfather
...
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The Writings of George Eliot: Adam Bede
“Here 's a bad business, I suspect,” said the landlord, as he brought in some
water. “Ah, it's plain enough what sort of business it is,” said the wife. “She's not a
common, flaunting dratchell, I can see that. She looks like a respectable country
girl, ...
George Eliot, John Walter Cross, 1908
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Adam Bede, by George Eliot
That's what comes o' marr'in' young wenches. I war gone thirty, an' th' feyther too,
afore we war married ; an' young enough too. She'll be a poor dratchell by then
she's thirty, a-marr'in' a-that'n, afore her teeth's all come." Adam walked so fast ...
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An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the ...
Hallam, Kingsley Document, sb. Froude Dramatic, adj. Kingsley Documentarily,
adv. Ruskin Draperiod, adj. Macdonald Doddered, adj. Mrs. Gaskell Drapery, sb.
T, Mrs. Gaskell Dodge, sb. Sat. Rev.,Times Dratchell, sb. bad woman, Doe, sb.
