peachalorum
n.— «In comes a regular honeycooler. Say, de minute I git my lamps on her I knows it was all over wid Ag an’ all de rest of my daisies. She was one, two, t’ree. De rest of ‘em was also rans. “Sally,” laughs de old daisy to de peachalorum, “will you loan me a quarter?”» —“Confessions of the Reformed Messenger Boy: A Reform that Failed” Chicago Daily Tribune June 18, 1901. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The word dezzick is defined in an 1875 dictionary of the Sussex dialect as “a day’s work.” This is part of a complete episode.
Related
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...