Meaning of shirtie | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“An’ that’s how we finds him, hangin’ on like grim death, him and his little shirtie.”

“Эх, если б узнал это старый барин! Он не посмотрел бы на то, что ты чиновник, а, поднявши рубашонку, таких бы засыпал тебе, что б дня четыре ты почесывался.”

“I bought only George a present, something so different, so unusual, that he couldn’t possibly go through life without one. It was a little shirt on its own little hanger with this verse on the front: ‘When your handkerchief is clean, Put it it where it can be seen, But when your handkerchief is dirty, Put it in this little shirtie.’”

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