Citations:ichy


 * 1889, Philip Henry Gosse, "A country day-school seventy years ago", in Longman's Magazine, page 523:
 * Of the primitive Dorset dialectI recollect many examples at Sells's. Among the oddities of pronunciation which prevailed among the less cultivated of the boys, there were two which doubtless were lingering remnants of the old Anglo-Saxon. The rural and more vulgar Poole boys used the word ‘thik’ for the pronoun ‘this,’ the ‘th’ being sounded hard in each case. The other word was ‘ich’ (with the i long as in ‘ice’); this was heard mainly in the form &#39;ichy,&#39; and always in a sort of simulated humbleness in begging, as when one lad, seeing another eating an apple or a cake, would hold out his hand, saying, &#39;Gi&#39; ichy a bit!&#39; &#39;What, none for poor ichy!&#39;