yarrum
English
Alternative forms
- yaram, yarum
Etymology
Unknown
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjæɹəm/
Noun
yarrum (uncountable)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Milk.
- 1652, Brome, Richard, A Joviall Crew: or, the Merry Beggars, play, first performed 1641:
- Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yarrum.
-
References
- OED2
- [Francis Grose] (1788), “Yarrum”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Yarrum”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “yarum”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 424.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 7, page 372
Anagrams
- Murray, murray