helbow-shakin

Updated: July 3, 2026

It's been doosedly dipped and cut into, sir, by the confounded extravygance of your master, with his helbow-shakin' and his bill discountin', and his cottage in the Regency Park, and his many wickednesses. He's a bad un, Mr. Lightfoot a bad lot, sir, and that you know.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis, Volume 2: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy