word-o'-mouth

Updated: May 7, 2025

'That was true, too, then? I heard something in a scadderin' word-o'-mouth way, said Jabez. 'I'll answer for the house property, because Jim he requested my signed name at the foot o' some papers concernin' it. Regardin' the money in the bank, he nature-ally wouldn't like such things talked about all round the parish, so he took strangers for witnesses.

Rudyard Kipling - A Diversity of Creatures