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Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage choose

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[UK] S. Purchas Pilgrimage 309: Going naked with a spit on his shoulder [F&H].
at spit, n.1
[UK] S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1905) 521: They make Florentines and verie good belly-timber.
at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] S. Purchas Pilgrimage III Bk V 991: They wear certaine little Aprons round about them, as low as to their knees and hammes, wherewith they couer their priuy parts.
at ham, n.1
[UK] S. Purchas Pilgrimage II Bk VIII 1344: They reuile them [...] and call them Gours, that is, Infidels; and Cupec, that is Dog; and Canzier, that is Hog.
at hog, n.
[UK] S. Purchas Pilgrimage II Bk VI 758: They are fattest vpon their brest and paps.
at paps, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 56: ‘Chippy Old Chappie?’ Oh, don’t ask! [...] I feel – well, like a dry-drained cask, / With nought but the blue devils there.
at blue devils, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 47: All have their hobbies – Music-Halls were thine, / Childe Chappie; halls of ‘blue,’ and brazen glee.
at blue, n.2
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 20: A cropper I’ve come, but it shall not be said / That this Johnny’s a cocktail blue-funked off his head.
at blue funk (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 56: ‘Chippy Old Chappie?’ Oh, don’t ask! [...] I feel – well, like a dry-drained cask, / With nought but the blue devils there.
at chippy, adj.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 55: Some other Johnnies – green ones – seem / Chirpy, and more than half awake.
at chirpy, adj.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 20: A cropper I’ve come, but it shall not be said / That this Johnny’s a cocktail blue-funked off his head.
at cock-tail, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 64: Is the squat / Smart counter-jumper’s round a more ignoble lot?
at counter-jumper, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 32: He had not ‘cut’ athletics, / though long days / Of dawdling had not strengthened pull or thrust / Of scull or punt-pole.
at cut, v.4
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 23: Awakening with a start, / The pillow heaves beneath him; he is ‘dry’.
at dry, adj.2
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 8: Adieu! adieu! Home life’s a bore [...] Farewell, domestic fiddle-de-dee!
at fiddledeedee, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 10: Life’s fizz till the last bubble’s gone!
at fizz, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 6: These were but comrades of the cheery hour, / The sharers of his ‘fizz’ or bitter beer.
at fizz, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 50: Red shine his gills.
at gills, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 24: The flags rock beneath him like a steed / Gone groggy.
at groggy, adj.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 20: A cropper I’ve come, but it shall not be said / That this Johnny’s a cocktail blue-funked off his head.
at off one’s head, adj.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 14: He hath ‘a head,’ and nodding to his friend / Makes the brain whirl like the revolving wheel / Of hurrying Hansom.
at head, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 19: Ah! who is more brave than your Johnny of note, / With his snowy shirt-front and his dainty dust-coat?
at johnny, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 21: ‘Let’s liquor!’ There isn’t much harm done so far.
at liquor (up), v.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 27: Coarse-tongued, canaille, apt at smirk and wink, / Would keep him meshed and ‘mashed’ on desperation’s brink.
at mashed, adj.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 53: Not e’en the ‘Boy’ can cheer me now, / And strongest ‘pick-me-ups’ are vain.
at pick-me-up, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 15: They self-deemed astute and ‘snide,’ / Of nous bereft, low chaff the bar-queen golden dyed.
at nous, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 43: Dangerous roads / O’er which at pleasure or at pelf to aim / For aught but cunning minds.
at pelf, n.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 42: It was a scene where he might ‘win a pot’ / Or ‘lose a pile’.
at pile, n.1
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 55: To me it’s all confounded slow, / Mashing and plunging, love and thirst.
at plunge, v.
[UK] E.J. Milliken Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 18: Hail, glorious Goodwood! Thy promise afar / Gives hope to the Plunger.
at plunger, n.
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