Hello everyone!!
I'm reading 'Great Expectations', and I found the word 'warmint'. I was wondering if you could help me with its meaning. Does it mean 'varmint'? Help, please!
Hello everyone!!
I'm reading 'Great Expectations', and I found the word 'warmint'. I was wondering if you could help me with its meaning. Does it mean 'varmint'? Help, please!
Yes, it means "varmint." Dickens often has his characters speak in dialect, and I've noticed that he often has his lower-class characters exchange "v's" and "w's" at the beginning of words.
A just conception of life is too large a thing to grasp during the short interval of passing through it.
Thomas Hardy
Many thanks 108 fountains!!
I must say that I'm enjoying this book extremely!!
Last edited by Carmilla; 11-19-2015 at 11:30 AM.
It means vermin.
Previously JonathanB
The more I read, the more I shall covet to read. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy Partion3, Section 1, Member 1, Subsection 1
It is my favourite Dickens book so far.Originally Posted by Carmilla
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
Thank you very much JonathanB for answering my question.
Hello kev67!
My favourite is 'A Tale of Two Cities,' but this book is fantastic, so far; I haven't finished it yet.
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