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Thread #56449 Message #2725460
Posted By: GUEST,JeffB
17-Sep-09 - 01:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Dogger Bank / Grimsby Fisherman
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Dogger Bank' - help w. some words
My Dictionary of Historical Slang has - "Ribston(e): A Cockney's term of afrfectionate address", with a reference to 1883; and Pippin: An endearment, mostly costermongers'; C19-20.