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[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: ‘Then let’s bolt,’ in tone emphatic / Bumptious Colin quickly said.
at bolt, v.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: ‘No my tulip, let us rather / Hand in hand the bucket kick’.
at kick the bucket, v.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: ‘Bolt?’ she falter’d, ‘from the gov’nor? / Oh! my Colin, that won’t pay / He will ne’er come down, my love, nor Help us, if we run away’.
at come down, v.1
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: In the precincts of the prison, / In his cold crib Colin lies.
at crib, n.1
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: ‘Tell me, on thy davy, whether / Thou dost dear thy Colin hold?’.
at davy, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: Draw it mild and mind your eyes!
at draw it mild!, excl.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: ‘Bolt?’ she falter’d, ‘from the gov’nor? / Oh! my Colin, that won’t pay’.
at governor, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: [E]ven when the hempen cravat was adjusted about his neck’.
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: ‘Mulled our happiness! and blighted / In the kinchin-bud our love!’.
at kinchin, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: Many a nob in vain had sought her, / Him full many a spicy one.
at nob, n.2
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: Joan was beauty’s plummiest daughter, / Colin youth’s most nutty son.
at nutty, adj.1
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: Joan was beauty’s plummiest daughter, / Colin youth’s most nutty son.
at plummy, adj.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: Gently o’er the meadows prigging, / Jean and Colin took their way.
at prig, v.1
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: [E]ven when the hempen cravat was adjusted about his neck [...] he [...] pulled forth a set of props and invited the reverend divine to set him a quarter.
at props, n.1
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: We have a few in our ‘mind’s eye eye’ that must shortly ‘walk up to the ring-bolt’.
at walk up to the ring-bolt (v.) under ringbolt, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: They had burst the bonds of snooze.
at snooze, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 21 Oct. n.p.: ‘No my tulip, let us rather / Hand in hand the bucket kick’.
at tulip, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 3 Feb. n.p.: New Bedford Wants to Know [...] If A.V. would go on another burst [...] if he had half a of a saw horse to spare?
at burst, n.2
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 17 Mar. n.p.: ‘If you have the dosh, you can come in’.
at dosh, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 24 Feb. n.p.: You are a gone case Richard.
at gone, adj.1
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 3 Feb. n.p.: Boston Wants to Know [...] If sundry gents don’t think it the pink of politeness to [...] make remarks upon the ladies as they return from church.
at pink, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 3 Feb. n.p.: New Bedford Wants to Know [...] If A.V. would go on another burst [...] if he had half a of a saw horse to spare?
at sawbuck, n.
[US] Boston Satirist (MA) 17 Mar. n.p.: [used to imply quality in any liquor] The old lady was sure to have her bottle of real champaign ready to accomodate accommodate them with the ‘genewine stingo’.
at stingo, n.1
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