1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland<\/a>)<\/p>\nIn other words: the gentleman knew exactly what I was doing so I could not sneak the silk handkerchief from his pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle.” Let’s dissect: Swell: gentleman (1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose) Flash: Knowing. Understanding another’s meaning.\u00a0\u00a0 (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland) Draw his fogle: pick his pocket of his silk handkerchief.\u00a0 (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland) In other… Continue reading Clement Skitt’s Word of the Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[87,219,160,104],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-characters","tag-clement-skitt","tag-language","tag-time-twins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5844,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":6416,"position":0},"title":"Clement Skitt’s word of the day","author":"leems","date":"August 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Seeing it was mizzling, the lallycooler inkslinger decided to stay in and have resurrection pie for his nooning. 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“The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle.”<\/p>\n