The word is written, not heard in my reference. A visitor has called to the writer's digs while the writer was absent:

"Miss Burne told me that she did not offer him anything - which was luggish of her. But he should have asked for something - if he had only known there was potted chicken & ham in the sideboard, besides cheese & bread & stout, not to mention rashers & eggs & a chump chop, which I bought specially for him."