What does trosseno mean?
Trosseno means (obsolete, costermongers) Something or someone bad..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, costermongers) Something or someone bad..
They looked at the court where he had disappeared, then at one another, and at last burst out into one expression of disgust. "There's a scurf!" said one; "He's a regular scab," cried another; and a coster declared that he was "a trosseno, and no mistake."
One said bitterly he never knew the trade like it was lately. It was a regular trosseno (bad one). If it went on that always, he said, he should precious soon nommus (cut it), for there was not no sort of living to be had now-a-days on the cross (by theiving).
Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."
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Trosseno means (obsolete, costermongers) Something or someone bad..
Common synonyms include dabeno, dab.
Possible antonyms include doogheno.
They looked at the court where he had disappeared, then at one another, and at last burst out into one expression of disgust. "There's a scurf!" said one; "He's a regular scab," cried another; and a coster declared that he was "a trosseno, and no mistake."
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