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The Highland Reel choose

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[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 63: Brown-Bess I’ll knock about.
at brown bess, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 59: I believe the black gentleman has been at work in earnest.
at black man (n.) under black, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 55: This, Sir, I thought a bounce, till this proof he has given me.
at bounce, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 46: I’m ready to give you your revenge at the broads.
at broads, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 65: I’m a chickabiddy, see take me now now now.
at chickabiddy, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 43: Boys, when I play, cry oh, crimini.
at criminy!, excl.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 65: I’m a little merry he, for your row dow dow.
at rowdy-dow, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 21: You’re an odd fish.
at odd fish (n.) under fish, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 56: Kick me, you little pick thank!
at pickthank, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 66: For a gun, pip, pop, change my little pop-gun.
at popgun, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Highland Reel 18: Brush his three cock’d beaver, and powder his scratch.
at scratch, n.2
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