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Poems 46: The meaning of being Gigg’d is to be driven about the course for a week or ten days, previous to entering the silken noose, to the stare and gratulation of an admiring public. Some wits have called this being carted!at cart, v.
Poems 46: The meaning of being Gigg’d is to be driven about the course for a week or ten days, previous to entering the silken noose, to the stare and gratulation of an admiring public. Some wits have called this being carted! Poems 26: [T]he European residents at Madras [have] the name of Mulls, from their liking of Mulligatawny soup; and at Bombay ‘Ducks,’ from the fish nick-named ‘Bombay Duck’.at duck, n.3
Poems 45: Fronting Chouringhee lies that famous course, / Where morn and ev’ning drives yield health and pleasure; / Where eligibles lisp forth soft discourse / To their intended – last, though needful measure.at eligible, n.
Poems 45: Fronting Chouringhee lies that famous course, / Where morn and ev’ning drives yield health and pleasure; / Where eligibles lisp forth soft discourse / To their intended – last, though needful measure: / Since, howe’er long the Dame has patient tarried, / She must be Gigg’d one week, before she’s married.at gig, v.6
Poems 46: The meaning of being Gigg’d is to be driven about the course for a week or ten days, previous to entering the silken noose, to the stare and gratulation of an admiring public. Some wits have called this being carted!at gig, v.6
Poems 26: [T]he European residents at Madras [have] the name of Mulls, from their liking of Mulligatawny soup.at mull, n.1
Poems 48: Writers we know don’t shake Pagoda trees, / Three hundred was their pay, in mint Rupees.at shake the pagoda tree (v.) under shake, v.
Poems 42: There’s no bad joke in ham, or Stilton cheese, / Wash’d down with Simpkin, or fine sparkling perry.at simkin, n.2
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