mossle
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[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒsəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑsəl/
Noun
[edit]mossle (plural mossles)
- (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.