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George Leybourne’s New and Popular Comic Songs choose

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[UK] G. Leybourne ‘Covent Garden’ Comic Songs 12: Very often he’ll try, – but it’s all my eye – / To get home to his supper, still warming.
at all my eye, phr.
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘Wheres Rosanna Gone’ in Comic Songs 16: Of an evening after tea, [...] her daddy blew his ’bacca.
at bacca, n.
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘Parisien Harry’ Comic Songs 9: Some fellers do the Rhine.
at do, v.2
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘I Should Like To’ Comic Songs 20: Now a fellow’s running in double harness.
at double harness (n.) under double, adj.
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘Parisien Harry’ in Comic Songs 9: I wouldn’t give a farden for the lot, boys, Gay Paree is the place for me.
at farden, n.
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘I Should Like To’ in Comic Songs 20: We’re going to have a genuine flare up, and no mistake.
at flare-up, n.1
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘Parisien Harry’ in Comic Songs 10: That’s the proper sort of life [...] right up to the knocker, proper, and no mistake.
at up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘Covent Garden’ in Comic Songs 12: To save all strife, take home to my wife / Some fruit and plum her a story.
at plumb, v.1
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘The Showman’ in Comic Songs 22: The country bumpkins broke it all to smash.
at all to smash (adv.) under smash, n.1
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘Parisien Harry’ in Comic Songs 9: All the pretty French girls are spoons on me.
at spoons on (adj.) under spoon, n.
[UK] G. Leybourne ‘The Gay Masquerade’ Comic Songs 8: With sweet ‘tootsy wootsys’ so sweetly arrayed.
at tootsie, n.
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