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Quisby

adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Mean; destitute; strange. UK, archaic, slang
  2. 2
    In difficult circumstances; in trouble. UK, archaic, slang

    "[S]he told me as things was a-goin' werry quisby with 'em Wilkses. I says, "I'm sorry for 'er, but he's a party I don't 'old with, as in my opinion deserves to want, only but for others as would want with 'im." She says, "He's been and got 'isself in a 'ole with them books as he've been lewanted with, and will get two years over it, they say," and so he did, […]"

  3. 3
    Drunk; tipsy. UK, archaic, slang

    ""[…] Did you know that my husband came home intoxicated?" Mrs. Brown laughed. "Oh, not so bad as that, surely! Only a little 'screwed.' George was 'quisby,' too. But then its Christmas, you know.""

Noun
  1. 1
    A wretch; an idle person. obsolete, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain; perhaps quiz + -by, or from queer or Queer Street (“difficult circumstances”).

Etymology 2

Uncertain; perhaps quiz + -by, or from queer or Queer Street (“difficult circumstances”).

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