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Flodden Field in Ballads vii 73: Away with this foolish mome .at mome, n.
Flodden Field in Ballads vii 73: Away with this foolish mome . ‘Robin Hood & Little John’ Ballads III 134/2: I’ll liquor thy hide, If thou offerst to touch the string.at liquor someone’s hide, v.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 164: You put some juldee in it / Or I’ll marrow you this minute.at jildi, n.
‘The Man Who Could Write’ Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses (1899) 45: Boanerges Blitzen didn’t care a pin.at not care a pin, v.
‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 152: ’E’s the only thing that doesn’t give a damn / For a Regiment o’ British Infantree!at not give a damn, v.
‘Tommy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 146: Oh it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ ‘Tommy, go away’; / But it’s ‘Thank you, Mister Atkins,’ when the band begins to play.at Tommy Atkins, n.
‘Route Marchin’’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 207: And we thinks o’ friends in England, an’ we wonders what they’re at, / And ’ow they would admire for to hear us sling the bat.at sling the bat (v.) under bat, n.4
‘The Young British Soldier’ Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 188: When ’arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch / Don’t call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch.at bitch, n.1
‘The Widow’s Party’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 199: I comes away like a bleeding toff.at bleeding, adj.
‘The Young British Soldier’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 187: Don’t grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind / Be handy and civil.at blind, v.2
‘Gentlemen-Rankers’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 203: Yea, a trooper of the forces who has run his own six horses, / And faith he went the pace and went it blind.at blind, adv.1
‘Gentlemen-Rankers’ Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 204: To dance with blowzy housemaids at the regimental hops / And thrash the cad who says you waltz too well.at cad, n.1
‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 150: But the Fuzzy was the finest o’ the lot. / We never got a ha’porth’s change of ’im.at not get any change out of (v.) under change, n.
‘Cells’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 160: I’m here in the Clink for a thundering drink and blacking the Corporal’s eye.at clink, n.1
‘Loot’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1899) 121: For a single man gets bottled on them twisty-wisty stairs, / An a’ woman comes and clobs ’im from be’ind.at clobber, v.2
‘Loot’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 171: W’y, they call a man a robber if ’e stuffs ’is marchin’ clobber / With the — / Loo! loo! Lulu! lulu! Loo! loo! Loot!at clobber, n.
‘The Young British Soldier’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 187: Don’t grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind / Be handy and civil.at crack on, v.2
‘Gunga Din’ Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 164: If we charged or broke or cut / You could bet your bloomin’ nut / ’E’d be waitin’ fifty paces right flank rear.at cut, v.2
‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 152: ’E’s a daisy, ’e’s a ducky, ’e’s a lamb!at daisy, n.
‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 151: A Zulu impi dished us up in style.at dish up (v.) under dish, v.
‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 152: ’E’s a daisy, ’e’s a ducky, ’e’s a lamb!at ducky, n.
‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 151: An ’appy day with Fuzzy on the rush / Will last an ’ealthy Tommy for a year. [...] So ’ere’s to you fuzzy-wuzzy / And your ’ome in the Soudan, you’re a pore benighted ’eathen but a first-class fighting man; / And ’ere’s to you fuzzy-wuzzy with your ’ay-rick ’ead of ’air, / You big, black bouncing beggar, for you bruk a British square.at fuzzy-wuzzy, n.1
Barrack-Room Ballads ‘The Widow at Windsor’ (1893) 179: Did you hear of the Widow of Windsor with a hairy gold crown on her head? at hairy, adj.2
‘Cells’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 160: I’ve a head like a concertina; I’ve a tongue like a button-stick.at head, n.
‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 151: But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us ’oller.at hollow, adv.
‘Gentlemen-Rankers’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 204: To dance with blowzy housemaids at the regimental hops / And thrash the cad who says you waltz too well.at hop, n.1
‘Tommy’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 147: An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit / Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.at hustle, v.
‘The Widow’s Party’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 197: Where have you been this while away, [...] Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha! at johnny, n.1
‘Ballad of the King’s Mercy’ in Ballads (1893) 19: The Kaffir grovelled under-hoof and clamoured for his life.at kaffir, n.
‘Snarleyow’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 176: When a tricky, trundlin’ roundshot give the knock to Snarleyow.at give the knock to (v.) under knock, n.1
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