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  • (noun) - (1) The whole matter.

    --Jabez Good's Glossary of East Lincolnshire, 1900

    (2) In the phrase, "to know the whole thruffing of anything," to know all about it. Thruffish, thoroughly well. "Thruffish, thank you." Lincolnshire. Thruffable, open throughout; figuratively, transparently honest and sincere; a person capable of being "seen through." North Yorkshire.

    --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905

    January 16, 2018