indiwiddle

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indiwiddle (plural indiwiddles)

  1. (humorous, dated) Pronunciation spelling of individual, representing Victorian London English.
    • 1848, Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Dombey and Son, page 601:
      If I hadn't been and got made a Grinder on, Miss and mother, which was a most unfortunate circumstance for a young co—indiwiddle.
    • 1887, Gilbert and Sullivan, “My Eyes Are Fully Open”, in Ruddigore:
      My story would have made a rather interesting idyll / And I might have lived and died a very decent indiwiddle.
    • 2012, Bernard Bastable, Too Many Notes, Mr Mozart, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
      Below-stairs opinion of Sir John is not divided. He is a shifty indiwiddle.
    • 2014, Charles Palliser, Quincunx, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 91:
      And more, for this indiwiddle didn't have no blunt at all. We had to feed ourselves and, worst of all, to buy all the building-stuff.
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