pricious

Updated: May 23, 2025

"Sure, it's ownly y'r say chris'nin', though it's pricious little av the say there is, be the same token, in this dirthy shoal wather alongside av us now." "But, it is salt for all that," said I, having had an opportunity of tasting it's flavour, my mouth being wide open when I got the ducking. "It is just like brine and even more nasty!"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Afloat at Last: A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea