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English
Etymology
Back slang for one sort.
Noun
trosseno
- (obsolete, costermongers) Something or someone bad.
1851, Henry Mayhew, “Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 18:They looked at the court where he had disappeared, then at one another, and at last burst out into one expression of disgust. "There's a scurf!" said one; "He's a regular scab," cried another; and a coster declared that he was "a trosseno, and no mistake."
1866 March 3, “London Revelations”, in The London Miscellany, number 4, page 57, column 3:One said bitterly he never knew the trade like it was lately. It was a regular trosseno (bad one). If it went on that always, he said, he should precious soon nommus (cut it), for there was not no sort of living to be had now-a-days on the cross (by theiving).
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trosseno (comparative more trosseno, superlative most trosseno)
- (obsolete, costermongers) Bad
1851, Henry Mayhew, “Habits and Amusements of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 11:Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."
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