Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution choose

Quotation Text

[US] 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.
[US] in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 41: Come shake your dull noddles, ye pumpkins, and bawl.
at noddle, n.
[US] in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 41: Come shake your dull noddles, ye pumpkins, and bawl.
at pumpkin, n.
[US] in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 52: Then we will make you poor pumkins to sweat.
at pumpkin, n.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 93: A parcel of noodles.
at parcel, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 270: A fig for your noise, sir.
at fig, a, n.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 263: With their maws stuff’d with frogs, soups and jellies.
at maw, n.
[US] 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.
[US] in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 260: If you are taken, no doubt you will swing.
at swing, v.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 307: Och! would you die, my jewel?
at jewel, n.
[US] in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 314: His horse that carried all his prog.
at prog, n.1
[US] 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.
no more results