multee kertever

English

Etymology

From Italian molto cattivo.

Adjective

multee kertever (not comparable)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Very bad.
   • 1897, Pick-me-up, volume 17, page 44:

     That'll be multee kertever to start the weddin' on.

   • 1982, Sue Fabian, Mr. Punch Down Under, page 40:

     Well my flying sawney hunter, I think I twigged you on the scaldrum dodge once, and just before that, you were reported to me as being scammered with some multee kertever flue fakers in a flatty ken.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary