(July 19, 2020 at 8:08 pm)Fireball Wrote: OK, I'll play.
"Peeler" is a policeman. Thank you, Pterry!
"Pocket peeler" would be a knife. (?)
Unless "peeler" means "dick", as in the colloquial reference to a detective.
I have nowt on the rest of it.
‘Pocket peeler’ is a miser, a selfish person. Someone who would rather peel a potato in his pocket than share it out.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax