Obsolete English thieves' cant meaning to understand or comprehend — to 'get it.' Part of the dense argot vocabulary documented in 16th and 17th century canting dictionaries.
Obsolete English thieves' cant meaning to understand or comprehend — to 'get it.' Part of the dense argot vocabulary documented in 16th and 17th century canting dictionaries. Essentially extinct today outside of historical linguistics and period crime fiction.
Do you stoll what I'm telling you, or shall I spell it out?
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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To understand something; to catch on; to fully appreciate its implications.
(transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A house that will receive stolen goods.
(transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
it was $500 well spent but it was stoll five hundred dollars and i found out that sometimes you can get it changed at the same time as your wedding
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(obsolete, UK, thieves) To understand.
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“it was $500 well spent but it was stoll five hundred dollars and i found out that sometimes you can get it changed at the same time as your wedding”
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