over-j'yed

Updated: June 13, 2025

Many murmurs of approval greeted this sally; every one being convinced that Dan was indeed in luck's way, while his wife wrathfully opined that he didn't know when he was well off. Poor old Dan hastened to assure them that he was "over-j'yed." "I suppose," he added, looking round deprecatingly, "they'll tell me down at the railway station the way we'll have to go; or maybe Father Taylor 'ud know.

M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis - North, South and over the Sea