a-shuvvin

Updated: June 23, 2025

He ain't workin' at all, at all, bad cess to him, who ivver he is, fur I can't say him at all, at all!" "Whoi, I be a-shuvvin' and a-shuvvin' all the time," rejoined a voice whose accents were strangely familiar to me. "You pull yerself, maister, and stop hollerin' at Oi!"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy