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‘The Ballad of How MacPherson Held the Floor’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 611: ‘Drink down your doch and doris, Jock,’ cried Treasurer MacCall.at dock-and-doris, n.
‘The Ballad of How MacPherson Held the Floor’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 611: ‘Drink down your doch and doris, Jock,’ cried Treasurer MacCall. ‘The Ballad of Salvation Bill’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 605: So now I’m called Salvation Bill [...] And Ballyhoo the Bible with the best.at ballyhoo, v.
‘The Ballad of the Ice Worm Cocktail’ Bar Room Ballads (1978) 633: I’ll bet my bally hat, / You’re only spoofin’ me, old chap.at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
‘The Ballad of How MacPherson Held the Floor’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 610: He smiled a smile behind his hand, and chuckled: ‘Wait a bit’.at bit, n.1
‘The Ballad of Touch-the-Button Nell’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 623: Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame.at burg, n.1
‘The Ballad of the Ice Worm Cocktail’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 633: ‘We welcome you,’ he cried aloud, ‘to this the Great White Land. [...] Boys, hail the Great Cheechako!’.at cheechako, n.
‘The Ballad of Salvation Bill’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 602: Now there was I, a husky guy, whose god was Nicotine. / With a ‘coffin-nail’ a fixture of my mug.at coffin nail, n.2
‘The Ballad of Touch-the-Button Nell’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 623: A whispered ‘Come,’ the skirl of some hell-raking demirep.at demi-rep, n.
‘The Ballad of Hank the Finn’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 618: It’s all you’ll see in this god-blasted land.at God-blasted (adj.) under God, n.1
‘The Ballad of Salvation Bill’ Bar Room Ballads (1978) 603: The gospel-plugger watched me in dismay.at gospel-grinder (n.) under gospel, n.
‘The Ballad of How MacPherson Held the Floor’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 613: Then two bright boys jazzed round him, and they sought to play the clown.at jazz around (v.) under jazz, v.
‘The Ballad of Touch-the-Button Nell’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 623: They gave a dance in Lousetown, and the Tenderloin was there.at Lousetown (n.) under louse, n.
‘Jobson of the Star’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 671: Come, take a pew, and tell me where you’ve been.at take a pew (v.) under pew, n.
‘The Ballad of Salvatioon Bill’ Bar Room Ballads (1978) 602: A woeful week went by and not a single pill I had, / Me that would smoke my forty a day.at pill, n.
‘The Ballad of the Ice Worm Cocktail’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 633: It’s very sight gives me the pip.at give someone the pip (v.) under pip, n.1
‘The Ballad of How MacPherson Held the Floor’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 614: Likewise Dutch, Dago, Swede and Finn, Polack and Portugee.at Portagee, n.
‘The Ballad of How MacPherson Held the Floor’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 610: Now what we want’s a kiltie lad, primed up wi’ mountain dew.at primed, adj.
‘Bessie’s Boil’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 675: So Misses goes off togged up tasty.at tasty, adj.
‘The Ballad of How MacPherson Held the Floor’ in Bar Room Ballads (1978) 611: Keep piping till you drop. / Aye, though a bunch of Willie boys should bluster and implore, / For the glory of the Highlands, lad, you’ve got to hold the floor.at willie, n.1
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