Swell Street

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English

Proper noun

Swell Street

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The West End of London.
    • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 140:
      But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine, […]
    • 1888, Henry King, Savage London, page 349:
      "My beauty, it's no fault of yourn that you're fit to mate with a lord; but it ain't in me to eat of his bread, and live respectable to order, in Swell Street."
    • Henry Pitman, The Popular Lecturer Pitman's Popular Lecturer (page 140)
      the never-failing curling lotion, invented and manufactured by Fop and Co., of Swell-street, London.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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