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Swell Street

Swell Street proper noun: the West End of London.

Proper noun

Swell Street

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) The West End of London.
    • But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine, […]1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 140
    • "My beauty, it's no fault of yourn ^([sic]) that you're fit to mate with a lord; but it ain't in me to eat of his bread, and live respectable to order, in Swell Street."1888, Henry King, Savage London, page 349

Questions about Swell Street

What does Swell Street mean?
Swell Street means the West End of London.
What part of speech is Swell Street?
Swell Street is a proper noun.

Words near Swell Street in the dictionary

  1. swell mobs
  2. swell organ
  3. swell organs
  4. swell out
  5. swell paper
  6. Swell Street
  7. swell the ranks
  8. swell up
  9. swell'd
  10. swell-headed
  11. swell-mobsman

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