Dinjerley
Glossary term
/ˈdɪn.dʒə.li/
A condition of impecunity, crisis and generally disagreeable financial exposure. Particularly vexing when superadded to aristocracy, addiction or matrimony.
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…and, as he suspected, she also was conscious of the nigh approach of that state of epsloot clucking dinjerley, to which purpose, albeit mindful of the susceptibility of Her Ladyship to choleric paroxysm, he in his customary tone of emollience inquired of her whether