palliass: mattress or place to sleep.
polone: woman/girl
riah: hair (back-slang)
sabi: to know (from Lingua Franca sabir)
scarper: to run off (from Italian scappare, to escape or run away)
sharpy: policeman (from “charpering omi”)
sharpy polone: policewoman
shush: steal
shush-bag: hold-all/backpack
slap: make-up
so: to be part of the in-crowd/Airish (e.g. “Is he so?”)
strides: trousers
tober: road
todd: alone (from rhyming slang Todd Sloanne—alone)
troll: to walk about looking for business or some kind of opportunity
varda: to see/look at (from Italian dialect vardare = guardare—look at)
yews: eyes (from French yeux)
zhoosh: style, make a show of, mince (Romani: zhouzho—clean, neat)
zhooshy: flashy, showy
Ian McDonald has written fourteen science fiction novels and has lost count of the number of stories. He's been nominated for every major science fiction award, and has even won some. Ian has also worked in television in program development—all those reality shows have to come from somewhere—and has written for screen as well as print. He lives in Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast, and loves to travel. Be My Enemy is the second part of the Everness series.
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