yarrum
English
Etymology
Unknown
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjæɹəm/
Noun
yarrum (uncountable)
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) Milk.
- 1652, Brome, Richard, 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:yarrum.
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References
- OED2
- [Francis Grose] (1788), “Yarrum”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Yarrum”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
- “yarum” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 424.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 7, page 372
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