bombarrel

Updated: June 15, 2025

Then away along the hedge to the pond in the corner, all green with 'creed, or duckweed, when one of the boys about the place would come timidly up to offer a nest of eggs just taken, and if she would speak to him would tell her about his exploits 'a-nisting, about the bombarrel tit a corruption apparently of nonpareil and how he had put the yellow juice of the celandine on his 'wurrut' to cure it.

Richard Jefferies - Round About a Great Estate