awkers

Updated: May 15, 2025

"One of them Chinese 'awkers," she explained, "'e's bin a-tryin' to git the better of me over carrots as if I didn't know what carrots was and 'im a-talkin' about a shillin' in his gibberish, as if 'e 'adn't been brought up in a place where they don't know what a shillin' is.

Fergus Hume - The Mystery of a Hansom Cab