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Examples
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"When some men is getting religion there's no more inside at them than a gutted herring, and they're good for nothing but to put up in the chimley to smook."
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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Then we'll slip up by the bridge yonder, and down the quay like a mill race, and up to the gangway like smook, and abooard in a jiffy.
Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon Hall Caine 1892
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Not breaking my heart, anyway, for when a man's a man -- H'm! "clearing his throat," I'm bad dreadful these days wanting a smook in the mornings.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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"H'm! h'm!" he said, clearing his throat; "I'm bad dreadful wanting a smook."
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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For they smook, an they drink, an get other bad ways;
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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'Twod happen be as weel, aw think, if they'd to smook thersen; --
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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But aw know some at nivver smook 'at's getten wrang as far
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Aw wor varry soary abaat it, but it couldn't be helpt, an they all sed they'd nivver had a better drinkin 'i' ther life, soa one or two helpt me to side th 'table an straighten up a bit, for ther husbands wor all ta coom an hey a smook an a drop o' summat short after they'd eoom throo ther wark.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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To smook a pipe o 'bacca is th' warst thing they've lent throo me:
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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An as aw sit to smook mi pipe, mi treasures on mi knee;
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
sionnach commented on the word smook
to prowl stealthily about a place, with the intent of pilfering small articles.
April 28, 2009