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The Limerick choose

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[US] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Limerick 3: He gave dem leg bail for his appearance at de next crak-neck assembly, be de hoky!
at leg bail (n.) under leg, n.
[US] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Limerick 2: He squar’d up to de two Bailies, tip’d one of dem a loving squeeze.
at square up, v.1
[US] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Limerick 4: For if but an inch dat you stir, / De devil your wig-blocks shall batter.
at wig-block (n.) under wig, n.2
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 294: Cuss it, I don’t give a damn.
at not give a damn, v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 261: Just to chaff him a bit / She said, ‘You old shit, / I can buy a dildo for a sovereign’.
at chaff, v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 4: He’s a stunning good fuck, / For I’ve had him myself down in Leicester.
at fuck, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 6: Take your hand off my quim; / I much prefer fucking to feeling.
at fucking, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 229: A rank whore, there ne’er was a ranker.
at rank, adj.1
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 195: There was a young man of Penzance / Who rogered his three maiden aunts.
at roger, v.1
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 261: Just to chaff him a bit / She said, ‘You old shit, / I can buy a dildo for a sovereign’.
at shit, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 223: He can’t go to piss, / But the spunk with the piddle comes bubbling.
at spunk, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 244: There was a young Marquis of Landsdowne, / Who tried hard to keep his great stands down. / Said he, ‘But that I thought / I should break it off short, / My penis I’d hold with both hands down’.
at stand, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 11: We sits on a rail, / And pulls out our pricks and they sucks ’em.
at suck, v.1
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 92: A convict once, out in Australia, / Said unto his turnkey, ‘I’ll tail yer.’ / But he said, ‘You be buggered, / You filthy old sluggard, / You’re forgetting as I am your gaoler.’.
at tail, v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 273: There was an Archbishop of Rheims / Who played with himself in his dreams. / On his night-shirt in front / He painted a cunt, / Which made his spend gush forth in streams.
at play with oneself (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 95: E’en a boy’s white, fat bum / Could not make him come, / But an old man’s piles gave him the horn.
at bum, n.1
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 16: There was a young man of Ostend / Whose wife caught him fucking her friend. / ‘It’s no use, my duck, / Interrupting our fuck, / For I’m damned if I draw till I spend’.
at duck, n.1
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 138: There was a young man of Bhogat, / The cheeks of whose ass were so fat / That they had to be parted / Whenever he farted, / And propped wide apart when he shat.
at fart, v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 60: There was a strong man of Drumrig / Who one day did seven times frig. / He buggered three sailors, / Four Jews and two tailors, / And ended by fucking a pig.
at frig, v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 157: There was an old man of Balbriggan, / Who cunt juice was frequently swigging.
at juice, n.1
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 276: He managed a stand, And tossed himself off in the stalls.
at toss (off), v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 51: There was a gay parson of Tooting / Whose roe he was frequently shooting.
at roe, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 51: There was a gay parson of Tooting / Whose roe he was frequently shooting.
at shoot one’s roe (v.) under shoot, v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 16: There was a young man of Ostend / Whose wife caught him fucking her friend. / ‘It’s no use, my duck, / Interrupting our fuck, / For I’m damned if I draw till I spend.’.
at spend, v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 273: There was an Archbishop of Rheims / Who played with himself in his dreams. / On his night-shirt in front / He painted a cunt, / Which made his spend gush forth in streams.
at spend, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 95: There was a young Jew of Delray / Who buggered his father one day. / He said, ‘I like rather / To stuff it up Father; / He’s clean, and there’s nothing to pay.’.
at stuff, v.1
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 105: What’s all this blithering about?
at blithering, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 105: To fuck and to bugger is pain / But it’s not infra dig / On occasion to frig.
at frig, v.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 105: I shoot my spunk / Up an elephant’s trunk.
at spunk, n.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 220: There was a young fellow—a banker, / Had bubo, itch, pox, and chancre.
at bube, n.
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