subs. (common).—Gibberish; jargon; jumble of words: e.g., ‘Stash’ (‘stow’ or ‘cheese’) your BARRIKIN’ = Hold your jaw! Do you ‘tumble’ to that barrikin? = Do you understand? Do you ‘twig’?
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 15. ‘The high words in a tragedy we call jaw-breakers, and say we can’t tumble to that BARRIKIN.’ Ibid., 25. Can’t tumble to your BARRIKIN [i.e., can’t understand you]. Ibid., 27. The rich have all that BARRIKIN to themselves.
