whoam-sick

Updated: May 12, 2025

Aw'd summut to do to persuade him at first, an' aw know that he's as whoam-sick as a chylt that's lost its mother, just this minute; but then, what's th' matter o' that, it wouldn't do for mo to have him laid up, yo known. . . . Oh, he's a very feelin' mon.

Edwin Waugh - Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine