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(pl. noun) - Meat. On saying to someone I was visiting, "Who lives next door?" I was answered, "The butcher. That's where we get our butcher's plums."
--Rev. F.M.T. Palgrave's Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole, Durham, Being Words Not Ordinarily Accepted, 1896
January 16, 2018