pewny

Updated: May 19, 2025

You show weakness, think of your dear ma, mayhap, and begin to cry: it's all over with you; the whole school is at you upper boys and under, big and little; the dirtiest little fag in the place will pipe out blaggerd names at you, and takes his pewny tug at your tail. The only way to avoid such consperracies is to put a pair of stowt shoalders forrards, and bust through the crowd of raggymuffins.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush