Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Usher
intj. (thieves’).—Yes: cf. Yiddish user = it is so.
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1887. J. W. HORSLEY, Jottings from Jail, i. When I got into Shoreditch I met one or two of the mob, who said, ‘Hallo, been out to-day? Did you touch?’ So I said, ‘USHER’ (yes).
