Measley

mean, miserable-looking, “seedy;” “what a MEASLEY -looking man!” i.e. , what a wretched, unhappy fellow. Medical Greek , the slang used by medical students at the hospitals. At the London University they have a way of disguising English, described by Albert Smith as the Gower Street Dialect, which consists in transposing the initials of words, e.g. , “poke a smipe”—smoke a pipe; “flutter-by”—butterfly, . This disagreeable nonsense, which has not even the recommendation of a little ability in its composition, is often termed Marrowskying. See Greek , St. Giles’s Greek , or the “ Ægidiac ” dialect, Language of ZIPH , .