Long of tooth, he's a drooling invader
Ever youthful, yet ghoulish night-shader
From your jugular vein
He will suckle and drain
And then--streuth!--he flies home using radar.
David Cairns
The Sorrows of Satan (D. W. Griffith, 1926). Limerick Lexicon: 1. streuth. Exclamation of shock. Australian slang. "You mean you stole 1 loaf of bread and now you are being shipped to Australia? Streuth!"
3 comments:
Cairns does it again--first time use of "streuth" on Limerwrecks.
A conflation of "God's truth!" just as "Blimey!" is a conflation of "God blind me!"
"Gorblimey" gives it away.
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