10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «SWADDY»
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London life at the police-courts
Can't abide a swaddy," said Joe ; " never could. Wenhever I seed one a coming
along, I'd shoulder him off the pavement. Swaddy 'ud off with his belt, and I'd jest
lift up my sledge-hammer fist, and down 'ud go swaddy. Sir Richard Birnie, the ...
2
Why Private Note-book: Or Recollections of Aus Olds Reforter ...
Can't abide a swaddy," said Joe ; " never could. Wenhever I seed one a coming
along, I'd shoulder him off the pavement. Swaddy 'ud off with his belt, and I'd jest
lift up my sledge-hammer fist, and down 'ud go swaddy. Sir Eichard Birnie, the ...
3
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
swaddy;. swaddie,. swoddy . A soldier: low >, ca 1860, naval and military s.: C.19
–20. Vaux, 1812; Smyth, 1867, 'A discharged soldier', with which cf. Smyth on
SWADKIN. Ex SWAD, n. Among soldiers, in late C.19–20, gen. of a private and ...
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson,
1973
4
The red, white & blue monster song book, ed. by J. Diprose
T'us ill the bobby took, and, while he winked at cook, He treated Susan's soger
with a scowling1, jealous '« .k. For, tho'igiit the man in blue, there's not grub P')oi:
gh f >r twi>, And det^rinitiail, on the sly, for the swaddy be w-»,uid do; And the ...
5
The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by ...
SWADDY. A soldier. " A regiment o' swaddies." "Bown to be a swaddy ! " " Tha'd
mak a rare swaddy ! " SWADS. The shells of peas or beans. " Pei-swads ; " " bean
- swads." SWALLACK. " Gi'e him thrippence fur swallack,"— to get beer with.
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
C.18-20; ob. in s. by 1910. (The Memoirs of John Hall, 1708; Grose, 2nd ed.;
Smyth, 1867, 'A newly raised soldier'.) in late C.19—early 20, esp. a militiaman.
Perhaps ex swad, a bumpkin, a lout. Cf. swadkin and swaddy, qq.v., and: swad-
gill.
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale,
1984
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
'That I may never, if a finer swaddy ever crossed my hands,' Cameron
Fardorougka (ed. 1848) i. Uta. She's a fine swaddy, a real good wee worker, and
not a lazy bone in her body, Hunt-ton Bag (1896) 11. AnbA fine swaddie o' a Wee
pig.
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Ella was the son of Iff, Iff of Usfrey, Usfrey of Wilgis, Wilgis of Westerfalcon,
Westerfalcon of Seafowl, Seafowl of Sebbald, Sebbald of Sigeat, Sigeat of
Swaddy, Swaddy of Seagirt, Seagar of Waddy, Waddy of Woden, Woden of
Frithowulf.
NuVision Publications, LLC,
2004
9
Faith and Falsehood Or, The Fate a Bushranger: A Drama in ...
He's a swaddy, bless you-after he lost Jane, he became as wild as any one-he
was quite a steady going one before-he listed at last. Brun. Perhaps he'd join us
in this speo-we'd get enough to bu him 0d' a hundred times. D be. That's the ticket
.
10
Ships and Memories: Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam
... as a swaddy. And a swaddy in those days was a militiaman, in his red coat and
his blue trousers, and here he was copulating with a lady jammed in the corner.
We didn't see much of her, except that you could see her 1 Yarns.