Crossword-Solution: SHELTA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHELTA | anagram | ETHALS, HALEST, HASLET, LATHES, THALES, THELAS |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SHELTA”
| Clue | Answers |
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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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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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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.