what's-'em-a-call

Updated: June 24, 2025

There's two or three nice young gentlemen come'd round here now, but they're all what's-'em-a-call it? some sort o' papishes; leastwise, they has prayers in the church every day, and doesn't preach the Gospel, no how, I hears by my wife, and she knows all about it, along of going to meeting. Then there's one over thereaway, as had to leave his living he knows why. He got safe over seas.

Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography