1878 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.
1878 G. Leybourne ‘Wheres Rosanna Gone’ in Comic Songs 16: Of an evening after tea, [...] her daddy blew his ’bacca.at bacca, n.
1878 G. Leybourne ‘I Should Like To’ Comic Songs 20: Now a fellow’s running in double harness.at double harness (n.) under double, adj.
1878 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.
1878 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
1878 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
1878 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
1878 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
1878 G. Leybourne ‘Parisien Harry’ in Comic Songs 9: All the pretty French girls are spoons on me.at spoons on (adj.) under spoon, n.
1878 G. Leybourne ‘The Gay Masquerade’ Comic Songs 8: With sweet ‘tootsy wootsys’ so sweetly arrayed.at tootsie, n.