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[US] ‘HINKY, DINKY, PARLEZ-VOUS’ in Canfield Coll. Mademoiselle of Kemel-hill, / She won’t jig-jig, but her mother will, / Hinky, dinky, parlez-vous.
at jig-a-jig, v.
[US]parody (‘When You Wore a Tulip, and I Wore a Rose’)’ in Canfield Coll. Play with it, dearie, / And make it feel cheery, / It’s down where the short hair grows.
at short and curlies, n.
[US]the bastard king of england’ version 2 in Canfield Coll. For during the ride the Frenchman’s pride / Was stretched a yard or more.
at pride (and joy), n.
[US] unidentified letter in Canfield Coll. And then spoke an ancient convict, / His face hard, and bold as brass. / ‘Then take your god dam dinner, / And shove it up your ass’.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[US] ‘The Friar’ in Canfield Coll. He took her to his priory hall / [...] / And put it to her, balls and all.
at balls and all under balls, n.
[US] ‘Let me sit and rest, stranger’ in Canfield Coll. I got stuck on a bladder called Fanny, / And she wher [sic] clean out of sight / She could fuck like a mink in the daytime / And suck to a finish at night.
at bladder, n.2
[US] ‘Let me sit and rest, stranger’ in Canfield Coll. There came a city chap, / One of those oily assed fiends, / Who’d been rolling his bludgeon in Boston, / Where they feed them on pork and beans.
at bludgeon, n.
[US]the bastard king of england’ in Canfield Coll. His sceptre was his Royal Bone / With which he browned the Bastard King of England.
at bone, n.1
[US] ‘British Grenadier’ in Canfield Coll. Put on your old rubber bonnet, / With some vaseline upon it, / [...] For it wouldn’t do a lady / To have a little baby.
at bonnet, n.1
[US]lydia pinkham’ song in Canfield Coll. Oh, Mrs Smith—she had no breast-works / Which made her husband raise a row; / So she drank, she drank, she drank two bottles of compound, / And now they milk her like a cow!
at breastworks, n.
[US]breach of promise case’ in Canfield Coll. He seduced the plaintiff under a promise of marriage. He is a miserable and breachy coon who merits condign punishment.
at breechy, adj.
[US]the bastard king of england’ in Canfield Coll. His sceptre was his Royal Bone / With which he browned the Bastard King of England.
at brown, v.3
[US] ? AEF song in Canfield Coll. Oh no, Fine Soldier, she’s much too young, Snapoo! / You’d puncture her belly and ruin her bung’.
at bung, n.2
[US] ‘Judgement Day’ in Canfield Coll. He shoved it up her bung-hole, / A place where it don’t belong.
at bunghole, n.1
[US] untitled song in Canfield Coll. A Southerner can’t stand the press—when once he’s had a smell, / He’s got to have a piece or bust—the Cause can go to hell.
at — or bust under bust, n.
[US] ‘Cristofero Columbo’ in Canfield Coll. Now in the town of Madrid, the clapsters were not many, / And the very best clapster in the town was a God-damned Jew named Benny.
at clapster, n.
[US] ring-dang-doo in Canfield Coll. She took my cock-a-doodle-doo / And slipped it in her Ring-dang-doo.
at cock, n.3
[US] ‘Nigger Blues’ in Canfield Coll. There’s two kinds of people / I can’t understand, / That’s the cock-suckin woman / And the cunt-lapping man.
at cocksucking, adj.
[US]lonesome man. (Southern Mountain Song)’ in Canfield Coll. Yeller birds is yeller, / Black birds is black, / Little girl came by, / Warn’t old enough to crack.
at crack, v.2
[US] ‘A lad named Shamus O’Riley’ in Canfield Coll. The lioness was then in heat / O’Riley leapt upon her back, / And sent his mighty joy-prong / A-whizzing up her crack.
at crack, n.3
[US] ‘The Shit House Rag’ in Canfield Coll. Dan! Dan! / The lavatory man, / Has full charge / Of the crapping can.
at crapping can (n.) under crapping, n.2
[US] untitled ballad in Canfield Coll. One moonlight night while Nellie lay a-sleeping / Along came a corporal on his hands and knees a-creeping.
at creep, v.
[US]her man’ in Canfield Coll. Frankie she lived in a crib house, / A crib house with only two doors, / She gave all her money to Johnny, / Who spent it on parlor house whores.
at crib-house (n.) under crib, n.1
[US] handwritten addn to ‘lulu’ ballads in Canfield Coll. I wish I was a locket / Upon my Lulu’s breast / And every time she heaved a sigh / I’d see her cuckoo’s nest.
at cuckoo’s nest, n.
[US] ‘Nigger Blues’ in Canfield Coll. There’s two kinds of people / I can’t understand, / That’s the cock-suckin woman / And the cunt-lapping man.
at cunt-lapping, adj.
[US]socratic love’ in Canfield Coll. No hair to interrupt the course / Of his diurnal ordure, / And gather from that excrement / A rank dillberrie bordure.
at dilberry, n.
[US]the whorey crew’ in Canfield Coll. In the middle of the night Jane got up to do her due, / And the God-damn sea-crab grabbed her by the flue.
at do, n.
[US] untitled ballad in Canfield Coll. Along came a corporal on his hands and knees a-creeping / With his finny dong doodle hanging down to his knees.
at dong, n.1
[US]the bastard king of england’ version 2 in Canfield Coll. He slipped a thong round the Royal dong / And merrily merrily galloped along.
at dong, n.1
[US]in mobile’ in Canfield Coll. But the women-folks are prime, / You can screw them for a dime, / And they dose you every time, / In Mobile.
at dose, v.
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