Rascots i' th' ward ar' as thick as wasps in a hummobee neest.
As thrunk as Throp's wife, when she hang'd hersel' in th' dish-cloot.
As cross as an ex [the letter x].
Hoo keck'd as stiff as if hoo'd swallud a poker.
As droy as soot.
As fat as a snig, as smoot as a mowdywarp, an as plain as a pike-staff.
As gaunt as a grewant [greyhound].
As mute and modest as mowdywarps.
As stiff as a gablock [crowbar].
As gawmless as a goose.
As hongry as a rotton.
Me throttle's as dry as a kex [gex = gewse = Long saxifrage].
It'd weeary a grooin tree.
He skens [squints] ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass welly.
He's as feaw [ugly] as an empty pot ole o'er beside bein as dirty as Thump o' Dolly's 'at deed wi bein wesht.
He stares like a tarrier-dog uts watchin a ratton.
Aw've no moor use for a book nor a duck has for a umbrell.
Aw'st keep comin ogeean, yo may depend;—like Clegg Ho' boggart.
As rich as Cheetham o' Castleton.
They swore like hoss-swappers.
