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Thought I'd share a conversation I had recently with a Britspeaker:
B: I got hoicked out of my room to work in somebody else's.
Me: hoicked?
B: Perfectly good word.
Me: Never heard of it. Hoicked sounds like something you did when you needed to get junk out of your lungs.
B: It's what shepherds do with their crooks.
Me: Goodness gracious--how do they ever get them swallowed in the first place??
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>what shepherds do with their crooks.
and I suppose the latter was pronounced "croicks"?!
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Likely; dunno, however, since this was a written convo. (Egad, the NZ influence is showing...)
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And sheep and lambs and sheep and lambs and sheep and lambs and sheep and lambs and sheep and lambs ... and the occasional goat!
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journeyman
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It's not a word I can ever recall seen written, however it is a word we used regularly as kids here in OZ. It was used as a reference to *throwing.*
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yeah, wot 'e said ~ that's two posts this year already :)
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So the goil says to me, she says "Ya drunkard! Take a hoike!" So I scuttle home with me tail between me legs, and as I see the bright eyeballs of a car coming up the road I turn around and put me thumb out trying to hitch-hoike a ride home.
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So the goil says to me, she says "Ya drunkard! Take a hoike!" So I scuttle home with me tail between me legs, and as I see the bright eyeballs of a car coming up the road I turn around and put me thumb out trying to hitch-hoike a ride home.
Let me guess: the East Ends's answer to Damon Runyon himself in Brooklyn found.
no apologies to PDQ Bach
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