What is "podger"

Usage examples of "podger".

You never saw such a commotion up and down a house, in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job.

And in the general row, the original number would be forgotten, and Uncle Podger would have to measure it again.

Uncle Podger would get the spot fixed again, and put the point of the nail on it with his left hand, and take the hammer in his right hand.

Uncle Podger be precipitated against the wall with force nearly sufficient to flatten his nose.

We caught the train by the skin of our teeth, as the saying is, and reflecting upon the events of the morning, as we sat gasping in the carriage, there passed vividly before my mind the panorama of my Uncle Podger, as on two hundred and fifty days in the year he would start from Ealing Common by the nine-thirteen train to Moorgate Street.

We always knew when Uncle Podger had lost anything, by the expression of astonished indignation with which, on such occasions, he would regard the world in general.

John Mellamphy promise to give Harry Podger and Sukey Podger one quarter of the Huffam estate if ever I come into it, as God is my witness.

Mr Maxwell goodbye, we set off again, and in ten minutes had arrived at the shop and had Mr Podgers downstairs.

Podgers, the eminent cheiromantist, was washed on shore at Greenwich, just in front of the Ship Hotel.

Podgers, the eminent chiromantist, was washed on shore at Greenwich, just in front of the Ship Hotel.

You may be sure that in the time of King James the First, Windsor was a very quaint queer old town, and you may take it upon my authority that John Podgers was a very quaint queer old fellow.

Podgers with a great deal of interest, was filled with an immense curiosity to have his own hand read, and feeling somewhat shy about putting himself forward, crossed over the room to where Lady Windermere was sitting, and, with a charming blush, asked her if she thought Mr.

Podgers with a great deal of interest, was filled with an immense curiosity to have his own hand read, and feeling somewhat shy about putting himself forward, crossed over the room to where Lady Windermere was sitting and, with a charming blush, asked her if she thought Mr.