bitchadey

Updated: July 1, 2025

Is it broken language?” “Of course, your reverence,” says I, “we are broken people; give a shilling, your reverence, to the poor broken woman.” Oh, these gorgios! they grudge us our very language!’ ‘She called you her son, Jasper?’ ‘I am her son, brother.’ ‘I thought you said your parents were—’ ‘Bitchadey pawdel; you thought right, brother. This is my wife’s mother.’

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Is it broken language? 'Of course, your reverence, says I, 'we are broken people; give a shilling, your reverence, to the poor broken woman. Oh, these Gorgios! they grudge us our very language!" "She called you her son, Jasper?" "I am her son, brother." "I thought you said your parents were " "Bitchadey pawdel; you thought right, brother. This is my wife's mother."

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

'Because they have so much to say for themselves, said the black man, 'even when dead and gone. When they are laid in the churchyard, it is their own fault if people a'n't talking of them. Who will know, after I am dead, or bitchadey pawdel, that I was once the beauty of the world, or that you, Jasper, were 'The best man in England of my inches.

George Henry Borrow - The Pocket George Borrow

Who will know, after I am dead, or bitchadey pawdel, that I was once the beauty of the world, or that you Jasper were 'The best man in England of my inches. That's true, Tawno however, here's our brother will perhaps let the world know something about us.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest