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The Gentleman’s Spicey Songster choose

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[UK] ‘Billy Taylor’s Three Square’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 12: At length, his fame became so great, / He scarce could thro’ the village pass, / But all widows, wives, and maids, / Were ready to kiss this fellow’s ---.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[UK] ‘Go For Go: or a Bit On The Sly’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 14: And you are his captain, so pray let me pass, / I don’t like strange men to be feeling my a--e.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 48: The private passage but d--n the back door.
at back-door, n.
[UK] ‘Billy Taylor’s Three Square’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 11: Billy Taylor was a gay young fellow, / Full of spunk, and full of glee; / With his whim-wham, bag of tricks, / Hanging down below his knee.
at bag of tricks (n.) under bag, n.1
[UK] ‘The Queen’s Wedding’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 34: They said your hat was shocking bad, / and ’mongst other lying frolics, / You had no coat, nor waistcoat, breeches, / nor a shirt, nor pair of ...
at ballocks, n.
[UK] ‘Bet Farrell’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 39: Said the beak, come tell me good woman, / What ’tis you have got to state.
at beak, n.1
[UK] ‘Toasts & Sentiments’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 48: May volunteers all be able to enter the privates without beating about the bush.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] ‘The Queen’s Wedding’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 35: Now that they’re wedded, and they’re bedded, the Queen may say to him, / ’Taint every chap, that thus can clap, his hand upon a ---.
at bed, v.
[UK] ‘Female Tobacconist’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 43: One was a youth, turned twenty and two, / He view’d her bird’s eye, then called for a screw.
at birdseye, n.
[UK] ‘Joe Buggins’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 37: Says he, you bitch, you’ve been and diddled me of my put in to night.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] ‘Mother H’s Knocking Shop; or, A Bit Of Old Hat!’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 44: Now this old bloat had the choice of a score, / For he, you must know, was a hell of a bore.
at bloat, n.
[UK] ‘Bet Farrell’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 40: Bet called him a hard hearted fellow, / Which made the bloke for to laugh.
at bloke, n.
[UK] ‘Lord Bateman’s Long Jock’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 21: She took him down unto the cellar, / Where she blow’d him out with wine.
at blow out, v.2
[UK] ‘Poll Newry, The Dainty Flag-Hopper’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 34: The raw lobsters she sets at defiance, / She tips ’em a bit of her science; / Like a boxer she floors, the blue devils by scores, / And then in a crack she will fly hence.
at blue devil, n.1
[UK] ‘Jack Sheppard & the Carpenter’s Daughter’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 11: So I kindly took her home that night, / But she bolted away with my togs by day light.
at bolt, v.
[UK] ‘Bet Farrell’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 39: Dick well knew that she would be boozing.
at booze, v.
[UK] ‘She Sleeps With A Tall Grenadier’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 24: Come, none of your bounce, but take care / How you deem me inconstant and frail.
at bounce, n.1
[UK] ‘Nix My Jolly Gals Poke Away’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 16: But I was bowl’d out one fine day, / And in the van did ride away.
at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
[UK] ‘Female Tobacconist’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 43: One was an old parson, three score and ten, / Who enjoyed his pipe a bit now and then; / For her spitting box, he’d eagerly call, / But he’d smoke the whole night without spitting at all.
at box, n.1
[UK] ‘Jack Sheppard & the Carpenter’s Daughter’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 10: In Silks and satins she cut a dash, / In her cly she had always plenty of cash; / And she did it up brown, as long as she could, / But her pride had a fall, be it understood.
at do up brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
[UK] ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 48: The brush that lathers two beards at once.
at brush, n.2
[UK] ‘Toasts & Sentiments’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 48: May volunteers all be able to enter the privates without beating about the bush.
at bush, n.1
[UK] ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 48: Here’s a good night in Bushy-park.
at Bushey Park, n.1
[UK] ‘Lord Bateman’s Long Jock’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 21: Then he laid her down upon her back, / And in a very little time, / He done her business in a crack.
at business, n.
[UK] ‘Fanny’s Mill’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 13: Young Fanny on the grass did lay, / Her charms in view, so young and fair [...] And Roger he, the cunning elf, / With Fanny’s charms he helped himself.
at charms, n.
[UK] ‘Poll Newry, The Dainty Flag-Hopper’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 30: O! have you not heard of Poll Newry, / Who lives in the hundreds of Drury; / Beware of her eye, for many’s the cly, / She has shook in the hundreds of Drury.
at cly, n.
[UK] ‘Bet Farrell’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 39: But how would yer ladyship like it, / To have a thing poked up your cock.
at cock, n.4
[UK] ‘The Gown Of Green’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 22: When I rifled her charms, she so wriggled her bum, / That it was not long before I did come.
at come, v.1
[UK] ‘Don Giovanni or, The Man Vot Claps ’Em On The Peg’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 29: But he very soon learnt her to cock up her leg, / And in less than a crack, she was clap’d on the peg.
at crack, n.1
[UK] ‘She Sleeps With A Tall Grenadier’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 24: ’Tis true, that such crammers are told, / But we don’t believe all we hear.
at crammer, n.
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