Meaning of Towzer | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“’Tis pain to tell thee the Life I lead with him. He’s colder to me, than Adamant to Fire; but let him looſe amongſt my Kitchen-Furniture, my Maids, never was ſeen ſo termagant a Towzer: He loves a naſty, foul-fed, fulſom Drab, and ſcorns the tender Joys my Arms invite him to.”

“Thee’s bin and brawk the bussa, and ’twas only yesterday thee’s took my new towzer to wipe the floor with when thee’s knacked the milk-jug ’pon the planchin. […] You call an apron a towzer, a pig’s-sty a pig’s-crow, and the cups and plates from which you eat and drink are so much clome. If the teachers will pardon me, I should like to say that you are perfectly right in using these words.”

“‘This ’ere’s a towzer,’ Lizzie Clemmow handed Jenefer a rough apron. ‘He’ll keep the worst off.’”

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