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Excerpt from Ab-O'th-Yates Dictionary; Or, Walmsley Fowt Skoomester: Put T'gether by the Help O Fause Juddie Ab (that's me). A mony-sided chap, livin i' Walmsley Fowt. In his own een he's a philosipher; in his wife's een a foo. To his neighbours he's six o' one an a hauve a dozen o'th' tother. I' politics he's a Liberal Conservative Radical. I' religeon he's an Anythinarian. He believes i'th' doctrine o' dooin to others as he'd be done by; but, like others, taks every advantage he con o' thoose he has to deeal with. His feightin weight is five feet seven. Abandon. To forsake. Eaur Sal threatened to abandon me once, when we'rn coortin; but after I'd spent a penny on her at owd Nannie's sweetstuff shop, hoo took me on again. There's a good deeal o' things we mit abandon wi' profit to eaursels, an' advantage to others. Some o'th' drink we're i'th' habit o' moppin up when we dunno' want it, an' keepin eaur wives lookin at th' clock so oft o' neets; an' purtendin when we come whoam we'n bin at a Co-op. meetin; at th' same time we'n bin playin at "Nap." Abash. To confuse with shame. Ax a young couple when yo' meeten 'em ov a moonleet neet what that smackin noise wur; an' if that doesno' abash 'em, their faces han bin weel hardened. Abate. To beat down. Wayvers known what that meeans, by havin their cut-brass "bated." It wur th' cuss o' hondloom wayvin at one time; an has caused mony a bad word to be said. We yer little abeaut it neaw. Times han changed. Abbreviate. To shorten. If I're powin someb'dy, I should be abbreviatin his yure. If're cuttin eaur cat's tail off, I should be abbreviatin th'cat. When eaur Sal gies me sixpence i'stead of a shillin, hoo's abbreviatin my pocket-brass. They'rn used to abbreviate folk by takkin off their yeads i'stead o' hangin 'em. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.