mossle

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mossle (plural mossles)

  1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of morsel.
    • 1850, John Yonge Akerman, “Second Day”, in Spring-tide: Or, The Angler and His Friends[1], London: Richard Bentley, page 37:
      The oldest men in this neighbourhood, and some have reached eighty years, say they remember trees which are "not a mossle chainged” since they were breeched.
    • 1882, Hubert Simmons, Farnborough Hall; Or, New Life on the Old Farm[2], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 36:
      "I say", says an applicant, "when be you coming to wait on me? Mind, don't disappoint, for we ain't got a mossle of straw."
    • 1897, George Brown Burgin, “XV: The Passing of Mrs. Merryweather”, in Fortune's Footballs[3], D. Appleton, page 223:
      Not a mossle of good. I'm like them pore Indoos as sits on your doormat when you reproaches them with their colour , and doesn't move till they dies.

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