Some Of the words my old grandparents used I never understood as a kid, like “where’s me f***ing twirls” or “ I need a f***ing glim”
“can’t find me smother”
twirls would be keys glim would be a torch smother would be a over coat/ jacket.
the English gypsys seem to have adopted a lot of the old cockney slang, and still use it yogga= gun yoks=eyes mooey=face rackley or mort= woman kahzee= toilet and so on, few lads I used to knock about with who were English gypsys one of which died last week and what a send off he had. They used to be baffled I could understand thei