#angel meadows

[orbnorb]

Quik the Thunder Rabbit was a 1994 Sonic clone for the Amiga. The game is so obscure and yet i love Quik's design and his aesthetic. So I commissioned @omar2203 to draw him and Sonic The Hedgehog being pals!

[mythosmythix]

Writing an essay, and while reading one of the books I have realised that working class British slang is just the best and you can’t argue with it because it’s true.

It’s fun and understandable

Angel meadow in Manchester was considered to be one of the worst slum districts in the entire Industrial Revolution, earning the infamous epithet “hell upon earth” by mr communist Frederich Engels.

Here’s some angel meadow slang as complied by dean kirby.

Blues: the police

Clem: to stab

Crib: a house or bed

Ken: a house

Cross crib: a den of thieves

Deaner: a shilling

Dimmick: forged coin

Doing a half-stretch: spending 6 months in prison

Nine moon: nine months in prison

Dukes: fists

Dutch doll; woman

Flemsy: £5 note

Long-tailed: £10 note or higher

Fly: successful theif, never caught

German: a foreigner of any nationality

Glim: candle

Guns: pickpockets

Fenny: a watch

Fugg: prison

Lushed: drunk

Mill: to fight

Mullicrush: to fight

Mugger up: a cheat

On a ticket: free from prison early but on surveillance

On the cross; thieves at work

Pecking: eating

Peepers: eyes

Peg it: to run

Public; a pub

Scuttle: a gang fight, a short run

Scuttler: a street fighter

(Also make note that the scuttlers is also a Victorian crime gang)

Sharp: a cheat

Slop; a police man

Snaps: handcuffs

Snide: a forged coin

Stiff: a letter

Sundial: a photograph

Swell: a gentlemen and potential crime victim

Swell Ken: a gentlemen’s hoise

Thirty blow: thirty shillings

Toke; bread

Twirls: housebreaking tools

Whacker: a friend