Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
morsel .
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Examples
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I takes new bread, my dear, with just a little pat of fresh butter, and a mossel of cheese.
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‘“Immortal spectacle,” — where did ye get that choice mossel, Haymoss?’ inquired Sammy Blore.
Two on a Tower 2006
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A modern School Master could hopen his hoptics a mossel, you bet;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 Various
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"Yu ha'n't tasted wittels since that mossel o 'bread-an'-butter yu fancied las' night."
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
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Women don't like us Wheelers a mossel, espech'lly the doddering old sort
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various
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"Pretty, ain't she?" said the old woman; "a dainty mossel for any man."
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The chief delicacy of the menu here is the _mossel_.
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"Happen she'd been alive, she'd maybe ha 'picked a mossel," he said to himself.
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
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Oh, sir, I never touched a mossel. _ (big lump in her cheek) _
Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts Mark Ambient
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And a pootier young mossel o 'muslin, I never' ad perch on _my_ knee.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Various
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