tabble

Updated: May 12, 2025

There never were two animals on earth, Jim, that hated one another like me and that dog does. His name's Lovekins. Marcella dresses for dinner while we're out. We eat tabble dote. Ever try one of them, Jim?" "No, I never," said Jim. "I seen the signs, but I thought they said 'table de hole. I thought it was French for pool tables. How does it taste?"

O. Henry - Sixes and Sevens

There's fesh and there's fowl or, maybe, ye'll be for the sheep's head singit, when they've done with it at the tabble dot?" There was but one way of getting rid of him: "Order what you like," Anne said, "and leave the room." Mr. Bishopriggs highly approved of the first half of the sentence, and totally overlooked the second.

Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife