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Bacchanalian Magazine … Composed principally of new, convivial and amorous songs, with easy and familiar tunes, etc. choose

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[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 98: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] The quintessence of Love — A shake like a fiddler’s elbow, and a squirt like a fire engine.
at in and out like a fiddler’s elbow, phr.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 58: ‘Why jealous girls, it’s all my eye’.
at all my eye, phr.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 111: Says he, ‘My dear, you know to day / I gave your arse a salad’.
at give someone’s arse a salad under arse, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 75: What maiden her love could be spurning — / Tho’ he at tric-trac will play.
at play at tric-trac (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 36: Maria, precious black-ey’d maid / Pull’d up her coats and shift / [...] /‘’Tis this alone the men do mean, / When to the best they toast’.
at best, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 54: Your most beautiful bit, that hath all eyes upon her.
at bit, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 41: For tho’ he’s said to want but a bit for his cat — /Yet every one knows that he only means That.
at bit for the cat (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 66: Says I, ‘Father, I must str—e the bitches’ — / At which how the Codger did stare / ‘Although you keep roaring, / I must go a wh—ing’.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 109: I had not the pow’r away for to spring, / He had so fast hold of my little black thing.
at black thing (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 74: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] A bob-wig with a poker in it.
at bob-wig, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 98: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] The Linen Manufactory — Smock in one hand and yard in the other.
at bookbinder’s wife (n.) under book, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 26: Original and selected Toasts and sentiments [...] Death in the Breach.
at breach, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 56: Fat Comus toss’d his brimmers o’er / And always got the most.
at brimmer, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 9: I often repeat these sweet visits to Kate / [...] / [W]e’ll brush it about, / At morn, noon and night, ’till the brush is worn out.
at brush, v.2
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 9: I often repeat these sweet visits to Kate / [...] / [W]e’ll brush it about, / At morn, noon and night, ’till the brush is worn out.
at brush, n.2
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 18: To Fleet-street then away we budg’d.
at budge, v.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 50: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] Bush fighting.
at bush-fighting (n.) under bush, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 74: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] May a good button-hole never want a stout button.
at button, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 74: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] May a good button-hole never want a stout button.
at buttonhole, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 111: At night at home then he would play / With her same — what d’ye call it.
at what-do-you-call-it, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 95: As for poor Catgut’s instrument, she much the same did soften — /’Cause she is apt, as I have heard, to cry encore too often.
at catgut, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 22: While thus cherrymerry, / Let Harris and Derry / With faces uncommon supply us.
at cherry-merry, adj.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 97: The letcherous weight of his b—s beat time.
at clock-weights (n.) under clock, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 50: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] May the Cushion of Life be thumped by the Club of Vigour.
at club, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 59: When, beneath the Mount of Venus, / Oh! this flea jump’d up her crack!
at crack, n.3
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 43: Bad luck to every snitch, say I, / Afraid for himself to touch the cly, God send they at the Crap may die.
at crap, n.2
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 92: The charms of Cunny, by sea and land, / Subdues each human creature.
at cunny, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 26: Original and selected Toasts and sentiments [...] Cupid’s Coal-Hole.
at Cupid’s coal-hole (n.) under Cupid, n.
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 43: And when an execution’s plann’d, / Close to the Drop I take my stand.
at drop, n.1
[UK] Bacchanalian Mag. 50: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] Roast meat for the speaking mouthand raw for the dumb.
at dumb mouth (n.) under dumb, adj.1
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