thick-tollols

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thick-tollols

Possibly victuals. Simon Rennie (i) writes "This is a guess, informed by similar wilful word-mangling we have come across, but I think 'thick-tollols' refers to 'victuals'. You'll be familiar with the practice of creating comic versions of unfamiliar phrases. We have a poem where 'bronchitis' is known as the 'brown-critters'.

(i) Senior Lecturer in Victorian Poetry, Exeter University

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