Learning+the+lingo

=Learning the lingo=

This link will help you to translate some of the slang in the text: []


 * Use the "lingo" of the 1900s to write a short letter to a friend. See if they can transklate it back to contemporary English.

What do these words mean?**
 * street arab
 * micks
 * double header
 * tote
 * saveloys
 * tacker
 * runt
 * a toff
 * a squealer
 * go crook
 * dosh
 * a squiz
 * not the full quid
 * a barney
 * a dark horse
 * humping the bluey
 * bailing you up
 * hocking
 * when push comes to shove
 * hoof it
 * not on your Nellie
 * lets take a punt