Vulgar words in Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language (Page 1)

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ass x 4
bastard x 3
bitch x 2
dick x 2
            

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Bitched / Bitcheno, part.

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Bostaris, s. A bastard.

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Mailla, s. Ass, donkey.

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Ass and foal.

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When tute cams to dick lende nestist to latch yeck o' lende; but when tute's penching o' wafor covars tute dicks o' lende dosta dosta.

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In the old time the Roman who got from his brother money or other things on trust, and did not pay him again, could be made to work for him as horse, ass, or wood cutter for a year and a day.

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If a Roman got money, or other things, from my hand on credit, and did not repay me, how could I make him labour for me as horse, ass, or stick-cutter for one day, not to say for a year?

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He muk'd me for a lubbeny, Who chor'd a rawnie's kissi; He penn'd 'twas he who lell'd it, And so was bitched pawdel.

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she's an evil mare, a wafodu grasni, though a handsome one, and I never looks at her, brother, without saying to myself the old words: "Rinkeno mui and wafodu zee Kitzi's the cheeros we dicks cattane."

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Their language is the frowsiest English, interlarded with cant expressions and a few words of bastard Romany.

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Some of her bastard Gypsy words belonged to the cant or allegorical jargon of thieves, who, in order to disguise their real meaning, call one thing by the name of another.

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