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[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 31: Nick often eat a roast fowl and sausage with me, which in cant, is called an Alderman, double slang’d.
at alderman double-slang’d (n.) under alderman, n.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 31: Tho’ still fond of fun he for humour was ripe, / To grub on my Alderman slang’d every night.
at alderman, n.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 140: Whene’er the Dons, we catch at sea / Being very rich, all sides agree.
at don, n.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 31: To his very last dud Nick would readily fence.
at dud, n.1
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 45: No fopling he, for soon with accent rude, / Approach’d the man, and blush’d not to intrude.
at foplin, n.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 51: The subtile fungus told them all he knew.
at fungus, n.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 90: No more the Garden female orgies view.
at Garden, the, n.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 88: From Whitfield and Romaine to Pope John range; Each gospel-shop ringing a daily change.
at gospel mill (n.) under gospel, n.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 47: He call’d for plenty of the juice he lov’d.
at juice, n.1
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 155: Here no despotic power shews / Oppression’s haughty nob.
at nob, n.1
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 141: A pox, I say, on both their houses.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 189: A lawyer [speaks of] John Doe and Richard Rowe, terms, vacations, quitams, processes and executions.
at quitam, n.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 46: A chearing bottle and some right good fare.
at right, adv.
[UK] G. Parker Humorous Sketches 155: The Colonel now his voice bestows, To Chorus bears a bob.
at rum bob (n.) under rum, adj.
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