Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Parkey
or parky, adj. and adv. (tramps’).—Cold; uncomfortable: as when sleeping in the open.
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1898. BINSTEAD, A Pink ’Un and a Pelican, 273. ‘Morning, William; cold s’morning?’ remarked the victualler patronisingly. ‘It is a bit PARKY,’ assented William.
