Crossword-Solution: SHELTA
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHELTA | anagram | ETHALS, HALEST, HASLET, LATHES, THALES, THELAS |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SHELTA”
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| secret language used by some traveling people in Britain and Ireland | 1 answer |
| GYPSY jargon | 5 answers |
| IRISH gipsy jargon/language | 5 answers |
| IRISH gypsy jargon/language | 5 answers |
| Gypsy language | 6 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEAEZM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHELTA (5)
But, as I said before, I learn languages with _incredible_ difficulty, a fact which I cannot reconcile with the extreme interest which I take in philology and linguistics, and the discoveries which I have made; as, for instance, that of _Shelta_ in England, or my labours in jargons, such as Pidgin-English, Slang, and Romany.
Roebuck, and others, on gypsies; an account of the first and family names and personal characteristics of English and American Romanys, prepared for me by a very famous old gypsy; and finally a chapter on the "Shelta Thari," or Tinkers' Language, a very curious jargon or language, never mentioned before by any writer except Shakespeare.
But of late years the old tinkers' families are mostly broken up, and the language is perishing." Then he proceeded to give us the words in Shelta, or Minklers Thari.
Can you thari Shelter? Can you bug Shelta? Can you talk tinkers' language? Shelter, shelta Tinker's slang.
Our informant did not know whether this word, of Romany origin, meant, in Shelta, policeman or magistrate.