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I use an expiscate (search) tool on my home page which keeps tracks of the words people search for -- one such last week was "aggrawator", for which I find nothing (except for hints that it may be a Cockney term); but.
I found aggerwator on a couple of word lists, defined as 'locks of hair that frame the face'. then I searched Google[books] and found this, from Ringing the Changes: An Autobiography By Mazo De la Roche:
I called her Aggerwator after a character in Dickens, so named by her cockney husband, because she so greatly aggravated him. But her proper name was Wanda.
and finally, via Amazon Books, from Gaslight and Daylight by George A. Sala:
His head has a cranium, an os frontis, a cerebellum, and an occiput, although it be covered by a fur cap, and decorated with Newgate 'aggerwators,' instead of a shovel hat or a velvet cap with pearls and strawberry leaves.
-joe (uffda) friday
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