barmey

Updated: July 4, 2025

There was an old half 'barmey' chap when I was there, who was once admitted to the 'communion, and it happened to be his turn to get the wine first, and, by the piper! if he didn't drink every drop that was in the cup, and cried, 'Oh! that's fine! I do love this!

- Six Years in the Prisons of England

Whatever opinion might be formed of their probable efficacy out of doors, or of the sanity of the man who sat in his office and scrawled them out, the thieves themselves mocked and ridiculed them, and called the small-minded military man set over them a "Barmey" humbug. "What does it matter," they would say to each other, "how we walk?

- Six Years in the Prisons of England