yarrum
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yarrum (uncountable)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Milk.
- 1652, Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew: or, the Merry Beggars, play, first performed 1641:
- Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yarrum.
References edit
- OED2
- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Yarrum”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Yarrum”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “yarum”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 424.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “yarum”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VII, [London: […] Neill and Co.] […], →OCLC, page 372.