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"I have only had to use them twice, brother; but then I found them sufficient." "But suppose the person who followed you was highly agreeable, Ursula? A handsome young officer of local militia, for example, all dressed in Lincoln green, would you still refuse him the choomer?" "We makes no difference, brother; the daughters of the gypsy-father makes no difference; and what's more, sees none."
"Then I will wrestle with you," said I. "If you should chance to put me down, I will do penance by teaching you the Armenian alphabet the very word alphabet, as you will perceive, shows us that our letters came from Greece. If, on the other hand, I should chance to put you down, you will give me a choomer."
"So now," said I, "since I have shown you that you are a queen you will surely give me a choomer" this being a kiss in Romany talk. "I'll give you one on the ear-hole," she cried.
I don't mean dukkerin, dancing, and the like; but such a moderate and innocent thing as a choomer, Ursula?" "Innocent thing, do you call it, brother?" "The world calls it so, Ursula. Well, do the people who give you the fine things never expect a choomer in return?" "Very frequently, brother." "And do you ever grant it?" "Never, brother." "How do you avoid it?"
Let us take a drop of brandy life is short, and here's my bottle. But I'm all right, and you can leave your spoons out. Tacho." "The boshno an' kani The rye an' the rani; Welled acai 'pre the boro lun pani. Rinkeni juva hav acai! Del a choomer to the rye!" "Duveleste!" said the old fortune-teller, "that ever I should live to see a rye like you! A boro rye rakkerin' Rommanis!
On hearing this intelligence, Ursula returned many thanks to her gentle brother, as she called me, and Sylvester was so overjoyed that, casting aside his usual phlegm, he said I was the best friend he had ever had in the world, and in testimony of his gratitude swore that he would permit his wife to give me a choomer in the presence of the whole company, which offer, however, met with a very mortifying reception, the company frowning disapprobation, Ursula protesting against anything of the kind, and I myself showing no forwardness to avail myself of it, having inherited from nature a considerable fund of modesty, to which was added no slight store acquired in the course of my Irish education.
JOMER, a sweetheart or female favourite, has probably some connection in derivation with choomer, a kiss, in Gipsy. BLOKE, a common coarse word for a man, may be of Gipsy origin; since, as the author of the Slang Dictionary declares, it may be found in Hindustani, as Loke. "Lok, people, a world, region."
So to this day he is called the King of the Fishes, and bears his face crooked all on one side. Men should not boast too loudly of themselves. Yeckorus kushti-dickin raklos were suvvin' 'dree the lun panni, and there welled odoi some plochti raklis an' juvas who pooked the tano ryas to hav' avree an' choomer 'em.
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