3599 🗳️ ’ARRIET

[Paul Keating]

I have twelve definitions of ’ARRIET for you to choose from: Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Sunday 23 November at 14h15 CET (countdown timer here: ⏱️), or just over 46 hours from time of posting. Early closing will apply as usual.

1	(The type of) a boisterous or jovial young Cockney woman, typically the notional wife or girlfriend of ’Arry.
2	The brief, half-second pause a house cat takes before leaping from a windowsill or other height, during which it calculates the optimal trajectory based on wind speed, carpet density, and existential gravity.
3	A broad-bladed knife used in eighteenth-century London slums as both a kitchen tool and a weapon.
4	A casket made from a barrel.
5	“Jim Crow” politics [derived via reaction to Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the post Civil War period]
6	Kangaroo (Aus. sl.)
7	Miniature.
8	A nickname coined by British troops in World War I for regimental aid posts, which treated casualties just behind the front line.
9	A reliable year-round water source. [Fm. Arabic; into English c. 1940 by UK soldiers in N. Africa.]
10	A toe [Cockney rhyming slang, from Harriet Beecher Stowe], as in, “Ouch, I’ve just stubbed me ’arriet”.
11	A traditional sandal made of woven leather strips, or by using recycled rubber from automobile tires for the soles.
12	A woven wicker basket with a reinforced handle, traditionally used by street vendors and market traders for carrying produce or goods; characterized by its distinctive flat bottom and high sides.

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Paul Keating

Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[Chowie]

3 and 6 please

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

​"For we cannot do anything against the truth, 

but only for the truth​." 

II Corinthians 13:8

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[Judy Madnick]

4 and 8 for lack of a better idea.

 

Judy Madnick

[Tim Bourne]

9 and 12, please.

Best wishes, Tim B

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll fall for 6 and 7.

-Mike

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 4 and 11.

-- Eric

[Glenn Thomas Davis]

I'll fall for 1 & 10.

—Glenn

. . .

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM Tim Bourne <timbo...@gmail.com> wrote:

9 and 12, please.

Best wishes, Tim B

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[John Barrs]

#9 and #11 please

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[Tim Lodge]

I'm tempted by 10, but I'm not sure many Cockney rhyming slang speakers would have heard of the Amercan lady - I wait to be proved wrong. I'll vote for 1 and 7.

          1

(The type of) a boisterous or jovial young Cockney woman, typically the notional wife or girlfriend of ’Arry.

          7

Miniature

--  Tim L

[Efrem Mallach]

3 and 12, please.

Efrem

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[Daniel B. Widdis]

It can not possibly be 2, but I'll reward the author.

It could be 8.

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[nancygoat]

3 and 9 for me.

Nancy

[Shani Naylor]

They all seem unlikely.  I'll vote  3 & 8.

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