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Tommy Thumb’s Songbook choose

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[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 23: Nauty Pauty, Jacky Dandy, Stole a piece of Sugar Candy.
at jack-a-dandy, n.
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 43: There was a little Man, / And he had a little Gun, / And the Ball was made of Lead.
at ball, n.1
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 36: Blackamoor, Taunymoor, / Suck a Bubby, / Your Father’s / A Cuckold, / Your Mother told me.
at bubby, n.1
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 34: Piss a Bed, / Piss a Bed, / Barley Butt, / Your Bum is so heavy / You cant get up.
at bum, n.1
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 34: Piss a Bed, / Piss a Bed, / Barley Butt, / Your Bum is so heavy / You cant get up.
at butt, n.1
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 15: The Wheelbarrow broke / And give my Wife a fall, / The duce take the Wheelbarrow, Wife & all.
at deuce, the, phr.
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 41: We are all a dry / With drinking ont; / The Piper kisst / The Fidlers Wife, / And I cant Sleep, / For thinking ont.
at dry, adj.2
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 42: The Dog will bark, / I dare not to Stir, / Take a Halter / And Hang up the Cur.
at halter, n.
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook (1788) 31: Little Robin Red Breast, / Sitting on a Pole, / Niddle, Noddle went his Head, / And Poop went his Hole.
at hole, n.1
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 34: Piss a Bed, / Piss a Bed, / Barley Butt, / Your Bum is so heavy / You cant get up.
at piss, v.
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 34: Piss a Bed, / Piss a Bed, / Barley Butt, / Your Bum is so heavy / You cant get up.
at pissabed, n.
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook (1788) 31: Little Robin Red Breast, / Sitting on a Pole, / Niddle, Noddle went his Head, / And Poop went his Hole.
at poop, v.2
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 27: Taffy was born / On a Moon Shiny Night, / His Head in a Pipkin, / His Heels upright.
at Taffy, n.
[UK] ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook (1788) 45: I am a pretty Wench [...] And Sweethearts I can get none: / But every dirty Sow, / Can get Sweethearts enough, / And I a pretty Wench can get none.
at wench, n.
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