Vulgar words in The English Gipsies and Their Language (Page 1)

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"The ivy and holly an' pine rukks never pookered a lav when our Saviour was gaverin' of his kokero, an' so they tools their jivaben saw (sar) the wen, and dicks selno saw the besh; but the ash, like the surrelo rukk, pukkered atut him, where he was gaverin, so they have to hatch mullo adree the wen.

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For the Saviour was born in the open field like a Gipsy, and rode on an ass like one, and went round the land a begging his bread like a Rom.

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"And He rode on an ass?

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Well, yeck divvus pre the wellgooro o' the graias prasters, my juvo dicked a boro _doll_ adree some hev of a buttika and penned, 'Dovo odoi dicks just like moro Wacker!'

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The proper Rommany word for an ass is _myla_.

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An ass that carries you is better than a horse that throws you off.

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We'll lel moro habben acai, and jal andurer by-an'-byus, an' then jal by ratti, so's the Gorgios won't dick us.

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Adoi the rakli pukkered lesco it was for her rani ta jin kun'd welled a dick her.

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A tacho covva often dicks sar a hokkeny (huckeny) covva; an dovo's sim of a tacho mush, but a juva often dicks tacho when she isn't.

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If you more the first sappa you dicks, tute'll more the first enemy you've got.

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An' as he was beshin' alay a-mullerin' 'dree the weshes, he penned to his kokerus, "Avali, I dicks kenna that dovo's tacho what they pookers about morin' a sappa; for I never had kek worser ennemis than I've been to mandy's selfus, and what wells of morin' innocen hanimals is kek kushtoben."

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