nor'-nor'-easterly

Updated: August 7, 2026

From the fact that his only response to the question was to leap over the bench and make a grab at me, I gathered that his mind was not on haggis. "However," I said, leaping over the bench in my turn, "that is a side issue. If, to come back to it, you were in those bushes and heard what I was saying about you " He began to move round the bench in a nor'-nor'-easterly direction.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - Right Ho, Jeeves