indiwiddle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndiwɪdəl/

Noun

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.