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[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘To a Friend upon his Marriage’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 26: It is th’ opinion of this place, Thou canst not get a Babe of Grace.
at babe of grace (n.) under babe, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Louse’s Peregrination’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 48: A Lord of this Land that lov’d a Bum well, / Did lie with this Mort one night in the Strummel.
at bum, n.1
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘Epigrams’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 31: Husband (said she) I swear by cock [...] The dev’ll himselfe can’t keep that lock / Which every key can open.
at cock, n.1
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Louse’s Peregrination’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 48: My father and mother, when they first join’d paunches, / Begot me between an old Pedlars haunches; / When grown to a creeper, I know how a pox I / Got to suck by chance of the bloud of his doxie.
at creeper, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘Description of three Beauties’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 34: Mopsa with her puddle Dock, / Her Compound or Electuary, / Made of old Ling, or Caviary.
at dock, n.1
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Louse’s Peregrination’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 49: At last came a Soldier, I nimbly did ferk him, / Up the greazy skirts of’s robustuous Buff Jerkin.
at ferk, v.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Fart Censored in Parliament’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 82: Harry Ludlows foisting arse cry’d no [...] ’tis an audacious trick, / To fart in the face of the body politick.
at foist, v.2
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘Upon Naked Bedlams etc.’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 109: Whilst all those naked Bedlams, painted Babies, / Spottified Faces, and Frenchified Ladies [...] Will prove at last, but fooles and beggars prizes.
at Frenchified, adj.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘To a Lady Vex’d with a Jealous Husband’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 48: If we set a Ganneril on their Docks, Ride them with Bits, or on their geer set Locks.
at gear, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘To Sir John Mennis’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 112: Thou art (I heare) where thou dost play carnoggin / Thou broughst from Wales, ’gainst flute of Hogan Mogan.
at hogan-mogan, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘Epigrams’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 95: Old doting Claudius [...] Made drunk one night, and jumping but with Joan / Was forc’t not only to discharge the shot, / But keep the bastard which the gull ne’r got.
at jump, v.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘Epigrams’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 31: Husband (said she) I swear by cock [...] The dev’ll himselfe can’t keep that lock / Which every key can open.
at key, n.1
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘Description of three Beauties’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 34: Mopsa with her puddle Dock, / Her Compound or Electuary, / Made of old Ling, or Caviary.
at ling, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘Epigrams’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 31: Husband (said she) I swear by cock [...] The dev’ll himselfe can’t keep that lock / Which every key can open.
at lock, n.1
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘To a Lady Vex’d with a Jealous Husband’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 59: If we set a ganneril on their docks, Ride them with bits, or on their geer set locks.
at ride, v.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘Epitaph on a Leacherous Warrener’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 213: Behold here lyes a scalded pate quite bare, In catching conies, who lost many a hare.
at scalded, adj.1
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘To a friend upon a Journey to Epsam-Well’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 22: For here old Ops her upper face / Is yellow, not with heat of summer / But safroniz’d with mortall scumber.
at scumber, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘To a friend upon a jouney to Epsam Well’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 10: But he that gains the glory here / Must scumber furthest, shite most clear.
at scumber, v.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘To a friend upon a jouney to Epsam Well’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 10: But he that gains the glory here / Must scumber furthest, shite most clear.
at shite, v.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Louse’s Peregrination’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 49: Counting the English man but as a Stallion, / Leaving the Goat unto the Italian.
at stallion, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Louse’s Peregrination’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 48: A Lord of this Land that lov’d a Bum well, / Did lie with this Mort one night in the Strummel.
at strommel, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Reply’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 80: Thou Swad, quoth he, I plainly see, / The Army wants no food by thee.
at swad, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Fart Censored in Parliament’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 68: Swooks quoth Sir John Lee, is your arse in dotage?
at zooks!, excl.
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