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[UK] ‘Come Where The Ar-s Pin Quivers’ Flare-Up Songster 11: Come where the ar-s-pin quivers / Maids who are fond of skivers, / Leave your papa, and your mamma, / I’ll put you on the Peg, —.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘Come Where the Ar-s Pin Quivers’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 278: Come where the ar-s-pin quivers, / Maids who are fond of skivers, / Leave your papa and mamma, / I’ll put you on the Peg.
at arse-pin (n.) under arse, n.
[UK] ‘Rummy Toasts’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 296: The bald-headed priest, who goes in head foremost, and leaves his wig at the door.
at bald-headed hermit (n.) under bald-headed, adj.
[UK] ‘A Long Strong P-go’ Flare-Up Songster 10: P stands for P-go-strong P-go-long strong Pego [...] B stands for Belly! / Maid’s Belly, our maids belly—in our maids belly, &c.
at belly, n.
[UK] ‘I Am A Blowen Togg’d Out So Gay’ in Flare-Up Songster 16: I am sure there is none on the town / Who can do the thing that is right half so brown.
at brown, adj.1
[UK] ‘The Knocking Tinker’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 288: A jolly tinker undertook, / And promised her most fairly, / [...] / To do her business rarely.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[UK] ‘I Am A Blowen Togg’d Out So Gay’ Flare-Up Songster 16: I pick up a swell who has plenty of blunt, / And I make him come down to get into my —.
at cunt, n.
[UK] ‘For I Will Prig For Ever’ in Flare-Up Songster 19: Again He’ll cut a dash, / At play, or prize ring act the swell, / And ease some spooney’s slash [...] Whilst Sally’s eye / Winks soft and sly, / He dings to her the cash.
at ding, v.1
[UK] ‘The New Flare up!’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 279: Now bone and ragmen, sweeps and cabmen, / [...] With motts and culls and heavy dragsmen / [etc.].
at dragsman (n.) under drag, n.1
[UK] ‘For I Will Prig For Ever’ Flare-Up Songster 19: Again He’ll cut a dash, / At play, or prize ring act the swell, / And ease some spooney’s slash [...] Whilst Sally’s eye / Winks soft and sly, / He dings to her the cash.
at ease, v.1
[UK] ‘Rummy Toasts’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 295: Success to the face-making manufactory.
at face-maker (n.) under face, n.
[UK] ‘I Am A Blowen Togg’d Out So Gay’ in Flare-Up Songster 16: I never goes one fadge under my price.
at fadge, n.1
[UK] ‘The New Flare Up!’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 279: The only word is Flare up. / A shocking hat, what are you at? / This fashions word will tear up / [...] / For lively kids and pats galore, / The classic word is flare up.
at flare up!, excl.
[UK] ‘Whiskers’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 293: Vone of those luckless friskers, / Who’re shunned amongst the great, / But having not no vhiskers!
at frisk, v.1
[UK] ‘Tom Tinker’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 292: He would have a s—, and his words they were blunt, / I could not deny him the use of my front.
at front room (n.) under front, adj.
[UK] ‘Tom Tinker’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 280: All day he will fuddle, all night he will tuck.
at fuddle, v.
[UK] ‘The Parson’s Pimple’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 275: Well knowing he was better hung, / And must of course win for him.
at hung, adj.
[UK] ‘Tom Tinker’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 291: A lady she call’d him her kettle to mend.
at get one’s kettle mended (v.) under kettle, n.1
[UK] ‘Rummy Toasts’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 295: May the mouth be well fed that hath no teeth.
at mouth that has no teeth (n.) under mouth, n.
[UK] ‘The Three Degrees of a Rake’s Life’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 276: But after that, what he is then, / She reads a curtain lecture, / He drops his snout, oh! pity men, / Of the pavement he’s inspector.
at inspector of (the) pavements (n.) under pavement, n.
[UK] ‘A Long Strong P-go’ in Flare-Up Songster 10: P stands for P-go-strong P-go-long strong Pego.
at pego, n.
[UK] ‘I Am A Blowen Togg’d Out So Gay’ in Flare-Up Songster 16: I never goes one fadge under my price [...] On my own bottom I walks the pave.
at pound the pavement (v.) under pound, v.2
[UK] ‘The Amorous, Flash Young Gentleman’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 293: Until at last he got too much, / From one that was quite seedy, / He was obliged to apply, / To famous Dr Eady.
at seedy, adj.
[UK] ‘For I Will Prig For Ever’ in Flare-Up Songster 19: Again He’ll cut a dash, / At play, or prize ring act the swell, / And ease some spooney’s slash [...] Whilst Sally’s eye / Winks soft and sly, / He dings to her the cash.
at slash, n.
[UK] ‘The New Flare Up!’ in Flare-Up Songster 14: Away with bullies, bilks and snots, / Unless they come the flare up.
at snot, n.1
[UK] ‘The Three Degrees of a Rake’s Life’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 276: But after that, what he is then, / She reads a curtain lecture, / He drops his snout, oh! pity men, / Of the pavement he’s inspector.
at snout, n.3
[UK] ‘The Three Degrees of a Rake’s Life’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 276: Star gazing is all the go, / With peasant, peer and commoner.
at go star-gazing (on one’s back) (v.) under star, n.1
[UK] ‘For I Will Prig For Ever’ in Flare-Up Songster 19: Again He’ll cut a dash, / At play, or prize ring act the swell.
at cut a swell (v.) under swell, n.1
[UK] in Flare-Up Songster 15: [song title] ‘I Am A Blowen Togg’d Out So Gay.’.
at togged out (to the nines) (adj.) under togged, adj.
[UK] ‘I Am A Blowen Togg’d Out So Gay’ in Flare-Up Songster 16: At night in fine togs I am off to the play.
at togs, n.
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