subs. (back slang).—Sort: spec. of anything bad or not to one’s liking. Thus TROSSENO = a bad day, coin, etc.; also DABTROS.
1866. The London Miscellany, 3 March, 57, 3, ‘London Revelations.’ It was a regular TROSSENO (bad one). If it went on that always, he said, he should precious soon nommus (cut it).
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 18. ‘He’s a regular scab,’ cried another: and a coster declared that he was ‘a TROSSENO, and no mistake.’
