User:Equinox/November Joe
In late 2021 I read Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard's November Joe: Detective of the Woods (1913), which I assume must be out of copyright (the author died in 1922), but despite having a print copy I can't find the text online anywhere.
Until I have a copy I can easily search with a computer, here is the list of words and phrases I noted down as cite-worthy. Some might be Canadian woodsman dialect.
- blackmail meaning the amount of money paid, not the demand for it
- cookee ("cook and the cookee" thus not the same as a cook)
- down ("had a down on me" i.e. dislike, enmity)
- dropped to the game = got wise to it, "cottoned on"
- hanker and necker for h~chief and n~chief
- lie-by
- lunk
- monkey = mess around? ("if you monkey, it will...")
- Phèdre, French Canadian female name
- Queen Mab pudding (possibly also Queen Mab's pudding)
- reduce, noun: a reduction in price ("make a reduce")
- screw = pay, wages? ("week's screw")
- shsh (hushing noise)
- shut it
- sport, noun (apparently a sportsman, a hunter?)
- time, one's pay for a period of work ("got our time")
- turkey ("he had only his turkey": travelling bag or some such)
- white ("was a white man": not skin colour, but fine and upstanding)