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The Honest Fellow: or, Reveller's Memorandum-Book … A collection of … jocular songs … to which is added, A collection of comic sentiments, etc. choose

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[UK] in ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow (1790) 138: The dark lanthorn’s drifts, / Bamboozings and shifts.
at bamboozle, n.
[UK] in ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow (1790) 134: Come away citizens, ye that have long / By tyrots [sic] been held in the biboes.
at bilbo, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 38: And believe me, I do not regard you a pin.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 92: ‘Ads wounds and heart!’.
at ad’s (heart’s) wounds! (excl.) under ads, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 9: There’s Eagle-court Sally, / When Jack’s in her alley, / And pouring his gravy all into her dish.
at alley, n.1
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 44: I have a tenement to let, / [...] /I call it Sportsman’s Hall, sir.
at apartment (to let), n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 40: He’d done his best, and for the rest, / Poor Jock he hung an a—se.
at hang an arse under arse, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 25: And sure as a gun, when nine months were run, / She safely brought forth a plump daughter and son.
at sure as a gun under sure as..., phr.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 167: On Her M—y’s ass* *Her M— having lately received a present of a Zebra, or African Ass [...] it is become a common saying in London, ‘Come and see the q—n’s ass without fee or reward’.
at ass, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow [as 1730].
at play (at) two-handed put (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 212: Toasts [...] The first game ever played at.
at play the first game ever played (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 24: So Jockey with haste pull’d out of its case / His merry bagpipe, and play’d with a grace.
at bagpipe, n.1
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 218: Sentiments [...] The beggar’s benison — [A thatched cabin, clean straw, and a sound wench; or, That P— and C— may never fail you].
at beggar’s benison (n.) under beggar, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 207: Toasts [...] The bird in the hand and then in the bush. The bird in the bush and not in the hand. The bird in the bush and two hard by.
at bird, n.3
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 125: Oh! hear me with pity, no trifle I sing, / ’Tis no less than the loss of my little black thing [Ibid.] Young Colin [...] / Sat toying a while with my little black thing.
at black thing (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 49: But what’s very odd, the young blouze, / Each night puts the yard in her entry.
at blowse, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 159: He was joyous, and bobbish and jolly.
at bobbish, adj.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 44: Pray don’t take me wrong, / The theme of my song, / Isn’t that with flounces upon it' / [...] /I mean what all girls have, a bonnet, brave boys, / A flesh purse, by some call’d a bonnet.
at bonnet, n.1
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 212: Toasts [...] The bookbinder’ wife.
at bookbinder’s wife (n.) under book, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 212: Toasts [...] Buckinger’s boot [He had neither legs nor arms].
at Buckinger’s boot, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 192: I’m captain O’Cutter, / No bouncer or strutter.
at bouncer, n.1
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 121: Dis be de way you breed me in; / So God or d—l take me.
at breed, v.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 92: The next appeared was a quaker so prim, / With his primitive face, and a very broad brim.
at broadbrim (n.) under broad, adj.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 38: While you my dear Pollly [sic], a bum-reel can jig, / And at once please the Parson, the beau, and the prig.
at bum-reel (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 21: Then drink off your bumpering glasses, / So luscious the wine to our taste.
at bumpering (adj.) under bumper, n.2
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 184: As a bunter in an alley, / Uncover’d her belly, / A shoe-boy begot me upon her.
at bunter, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 185: His trull and himself / Made too free with some pelf, / For which Justice whip-cord had smote ’em; / The bunt was releas’d, / She the magistrate pleas’d, / So I stuck to the constable’s scrotum.
at bunter, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 187: [Jason] slept, ’tis said, a dozen days, / Nor once assum’d Hans Carvel’s ring.
at Hans Carvel’s ring, n.
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 76: She clapt me. / May she for ever go in rags, / And never know one moment’s glee.
at clap, v.1
[UK] ‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow [as 1768] .
at cock, v.1
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