veskit

"Yer keeper -- yer strait-veskit buckler, for if you ain't a loonatic ye ought to be."

Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859

"Vell, it ain't difficult to guess that a young feller 'as bin' avin 'a swim w'en you see the' air of 'is' ead hall vet, an '' is pocket-'ankercher lookin 'as if it' ad done dooty for a towel, not to mention 'is veskit' avin 'bin putt on in a' urry, so as the buttons ain't got into the right 'oles, you see!"

Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan 1859

Accordingly, rigged out, as he expressed it, in a well-mended and brushed pilot-cloth coat; a round blue-cloth cap; a pair of trousers to match, and a pair of new shoes, Billy found himself speeding towards the great city with what he styled "a stiff breakfast under hatches, four or five shillings in the locker, an 'a bu'stin' heart beneath his veskit."

The Young Trawler 1859

-- "Dash my veskit," says my father, "I never thought o 'that."

The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

'Ve thought ve should ha 'been obliged to strait-veskit him last night; he's been a-ravin' all day; and he says if he can't see you afore to-morrow night's over, he vishes he may be somethin 'unpleasanted if he don't drownd hisself.'

The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

'Vait a minit' Sammy; ven you grow as old as your father, you von't get into your veskit quite as easy as you do now, my boy. '

The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

'Vait a minit' Sammy; ven you grow as old as your father, you von't get into your veskit quite as easy as you do now, my boy. '

The Pickwick papers 1836

-- "Dash my veskit," says my father, "I never thought o 'that."

The Pickwick papers 1836

'Ve thought ve should ha 'been obliged to strait-veskit him last night; he's been a-ravin' all day; and he says if he can't see you afore to-morrow night's over, he vishes he may be somethin 'unpleasanted if he don't drownd hisself.'

The Pickwick papers 1836

‘Vait a minit’ Sammy; ven you grow as old as your father, you von’t get into your veskit quite as easy as you do now, my boy.’

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007