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[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 90: Dodd, in the bilboes, ne’er did better.
at bilbo, n.
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 84: To Andrew’s cage, where blockheads act / As arbiters of law and fact.
at cage, n.
[UK] ‘Anthony Pasquin’ Shrove Tuesday 68: Believe, my Chicks, one third of what you hear.
at chick, n.1
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 28: Oh he was (every inch) a Cock of Cocks!
at cock, n.3
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 101: This ne’er had been, you silly dog, / Had you observ’d the Decalogue.
at dog, n.2
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 28: My brother [...] Was struck upon the pegs and bit the dust.
at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
[UK] ‘Anthony Pasquin’ Shrove Tuesday 87: Each had a whanghee ’neath his fin, / And breech’d from ancle to the chin: / And kept his pad, and drove his gig, / And up to ev’ry flashy rig.
at fin, n.1
[UK] ‘Anthony Pasquin’ Shrove Tuesday 36: I’d watch the Lown, / Blow at his breech, and burn his galligaskins.
at galligaskins, n.
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 85: These Lads, the glory of the age, / Were in the Garden all the rage.
at Garden, the, n.
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 62: Och Blarney, Blarney! by sweet Ireland’s martyr, / May I be keel-hawl’d but I’ve cotched a Tartar!
at keel-haul, v.
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 53: I trembled when he met my mental eye, / Like fraudful Hucksters when their weights are tried! [...] Or Spaniels when they’re screwing out a jakes!
at jakes, n.1
[UK] ‘Anthony Pasquin’ Shrove Tuesday 26: When the nocturnal orgie’d muzz’d his brain.
at muz, v.2
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 72: Their sly projected business was defeated: / Peery Discretion left them in the nick, / And Cunning play’d them a confounded trick.
at peery, adj.
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 17: There are those that combat such didactic ills, / And give the precept to the vagrant breeze: / Among the sapient herd of peery wights.
at peery, adj.
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 28: My brother [...] Was struck upon the pegs and bit the dust.
at peg, n.1
[UK] A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 59: Great P.P. Rubens pencill’d angels squab, / Because his rancid Helena was huge!
at squabby, adj.
[UK] ‘Anthony Pasquin’ Shrove Tuesday 87: Each had a whanghee ’neath his fin, / And breech’d from ancle to the chin: / And kept his pad, and drove his gig, / And up to ev’ry flashy rig.
at whangee, n.
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