(urth) Auk's dimber tip to all flash coves
Gwern Branwen
gwern0 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 19:53:17 PDT 2009
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Matthew
Keeley<matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about this 1811 dictionary? It has all three.
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402
That's certainly better; it has a few others - bob cull, 'scavey'
(Wolfe spells it 'scavy'), cank, to twig, mort (but does Wolfe use
mort just for women?), cits (but just in the preface, what good is
that...)
But not limer, mews, hornboy, hoppy, or bucky. Guess we need a few
more dictionaries...
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gwern
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