1765 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 14: We’ll send each foul revolter / To smutty Africa, / Or noose him in a halter / in North America.at noose, v.
1768 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 41: Come shake your dull noddles, ye pumpkins, and bawl.at noddle, n.
1768 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 41: Come shake your dull noddles, ye pumpkins, and bawl.at pumpkin, n.
1770 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 52: Then we will make you poor pumkins to sweat.at pumpkin, n.
1775 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 107: These freemen will boldly agree, / To give ’em a dance upon Liberty Tree.at dance, n.1
1775 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 100: The women ran, the darkeys too; and all the bells, they tolled.at darkie, n.
1775 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 101: ’Twas yonder stood a pious wight, / And here and there a nigger.at nigger, n.1
1775 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 93: A parcel of noodles.at parcel, n.
1775 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 93: How they powder’d your pums, / And all the way home how they pepper’d your ----.at pepper, v.
1776 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 142: They’ll fight like devils – blood and ’oons.at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
1776 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 142: The folks on t’other side of the wave, / Have beef as well as you, sirs.at water, the, n.
1778 F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 234: Clinton’s name alarmed his mind, / And made him stir his stumps.at stir one’s stumps (v.) under stir, v.
1779 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 270: A fig for your noise, sir.at fig, a, n.
1779 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 276: We found ourselves mistaken, / And were glad to save our bacon.at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
1779 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 263: Our brethren [...] Who quit their old friends in a huff.at huff, n.
1779 F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 263: With their maws stuff’d with frogs, soups and jellies.at maw, n.
1779 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 263: Our brethren [...] Are at their last prayers, / And of fighting have had quantum suff.at suff, adj.
1779 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 260: If you are taken, no doubt you will swing.at swing, v.
1780 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 304: With purpose firm, though slender ranks, / Nor car’d a pin for Wayne.at not care a pin, v.
1780 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 314: His horse that carried all his prog [...] His corn-stock whiskey for his grog.at grog, n.1
1780 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 307: Och! would you die, my jewel?at jewel, n.
1780 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 314: His horse that carried all his prog.at prog, n.1
1781 in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 355: Our irons jingled – well they might – / We shiver’d so that stormy night.at irons, n.