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[US] K. Larson ‘Styles’ in Songs & Ballads 14: [T]he styles that Eve wore in the garden / Are the ones that appeal to me.
at Adam and Eve’s tog(s), n.
[US] ‘Lulu’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 68: What you going to do for your banging, / When Lulu’s dead and gone.
at banging, n.
[US] ‘Daniel in the Lion’s Den’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 48: He grabbed the boy and threw him down, / And rubbed his bunghole well.
at bunghole, n.1
[US] K. Larson ‘Old Mother Bogue’ in Songs & Ballads 18: Old Mother Bogue took a ride in a shay.
at chay, n.
[US] ‘An Inch above Your Knee’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 68: They when he picks your cherry, / He’ll say, ‘To hell with you’.
at pick one’s cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[US] ‘Bye-Bye Boy Friend’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 38: He went once, and I went twice / Holy jumping Jesus Christ!".
at Christ!, excl.
[US] ‘Daniel in the Lion’s Den’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 48: ‘In other words, my cocky man, / What hast thou done?’.
at cocky (adj.) under cock, n.3
[US] ‘Down in Lehi Valley’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 44: I’ll be on my way / To hunt the runt that stole my c— , / If it takes till Judgement Day!
at cunt, n.
[US] ‘Alphabet of Life’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 58: ‘D’ is for dittaling [sic], / Which never goes stale .
at diddle, v.1
[US] ‘Rain & Sorrow’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 38: Two spots of pink / Were on his d— / And there’ll be more tomorrow.
at dink, n.2
[US] ‘Lulu’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 68: Oh, the rich girls they use vaseline, / The poor girls they use lard, / But Lulu uses wagon dope / And she bangs it twice as hard.
at dope, n.1
[US] ‘Bye-Bye Boy Friend’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 38: He went once, and I went twice / Holy jumping Jesus Christ!".
at go, v.
[US] ‘The Damned Runt’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 42: Now, boys, here’s your chance / To get some gooey in your pants.
at gooey, n.
[US] K. Larson ‘Old Mother Bogue’ in Songs & Ballads 18: She poured the gin right down her old goggle.
at guggle, n.
[US] ‘Alphabet of Life’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 58: ‘H’ is for hair / That surrounds her c— .
at hair, n.
[US] K. Larson ‘Charlie’s Fate’ in Songs & Ballads 16: When Charlie got down into Hades / He met with a terrible hap.
at hap, n.1
[US] ‘Columbo’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 70: Columbo had a one-0eyed cat, / And kept it in his cabin; / He filled its a— with axle-grease / And started in a-jabbin’.
at jab, v.
[US] ‘The Little Ball of Yarn’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 60: It was in the month of May, / When the jacks begin to bray.
at jack, n.6
[US] ‘The Little Ball of Yarn’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 60: Said the jennie to the jack: / ‘Will you climb up on my back?’.
at jenny, n.1
[US] ‘Alphabet of Life’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 58: ‘J’ is for jissem / That’s sticky like cream.
at jism, n.
[US] ‘The Parrot Song’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 34: Said I, ‘By Jove, I will, I will’.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[US] ‘Little Tinker’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 52: [H]is long lean liver, kidney wash, / and baby-maker hanging to his knees.
at kidney-buster (n.) under kidney, n.
[US] ‘Barnacle Bill’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 70: ‘It’s only a gob from off my knob,’ / Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
at knob, n.
[US] ‘Alphabet of Life’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 58: ‘Q’ is for quiver— / That comes with a thump / It’s a funny sensation / When you shoot off your lump.
at blow one’s lump (v.) under lump, n.
[US] ‘Hi Reo Dandy O!’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 50: One [i.e. whore] called me ‘stud’, and I called her ‘mare’.
at mare, n.1
[US] ‘Rain & Sorrow’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 38: [of unborn children] Two little mutts / Up in her guts / And they’ll be out tomorrow.
at mutt, n.
[US] K. Larson ‘The Wedding Party’ in Songs & Ballads 28: The niggero man he ran to the war.
at nigger, adj.
[US] ‘Alphabet of Life’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 58: PJ’ is for p— / That That petrified prong.
at prong, n.
[US] ‘The Denver Home’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 72: ‘A dollar and a half for the first few punches.’ / And she slapped her a— upon my knee.
at punch, n.
[US] ‘The Denver Home’ in K. Larson Songs & Ballads 72: And you’d have s— your pants and died a-laughing, / To watch my a— shag out the door.
at shag, v.2
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