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SUSSEX PROVINCIALISMS
Adone ----- Have done ; Leave off j
v" I am told on good authority that when a Sussex damsel says, ' Oh ! do adone,' she means you to go on ; but when she says, ' Adone-do,' you must leave off immediately." |
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Concerned in liquor - - Tipsy.
" The man wasn't drunk—only a little concerned in liquor, like—and his back was a mask where he'd slipped in the muck coming along."—Kipling's " Friendly Brook."
Dentical - Dainty.
" My Master says that this here Prooshian (query Persian) cat what you gave me is a deal too dentical for a poor man's cat j he wants one as will catch the meece and keep herself."
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