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Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Mary Ann – An effeminate man.

I have no idea what this signifies, if anything, bearing in Mind Eddowes used this moniker after her drunken incarceration by the City Police: Mary AnnAn effeminate man. (L. London, 19 cent.). Passing English of the Victorian era: a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase.
 5ft 7 ins is tall for a woman of the period.

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