»’Ave a wet?» I declined the wet. (Novel Notes 205. 25.)
A young workman.
Common vulgarism for a drink.
swarry
»A day’s work, and then a pipe by your own fire-side with your slippers on. That is my swarry.» (T. T. T. 143. 16.)
A waiter.
Swarry is here probably a vulgar corruption of the French soirée.
(Cf. Dickens, Pickwick Papers, where it is still further corrupted into leg of mutton.)