Green’s Dictionary of Slang
A. Ramsay ‘The Twa Cut-Purses’ Fables and Tales 35: In Borrowtown there was a Fair [...] Baith Lads and Lasses busked brawly [...] And lay out ony ora Bodles On sma Gimcracks that pleas’d their Nodles.at boodle, n.1
A. Ramsay ‘The Miser and Minos’ Fables and Tales 9: In short he famish’d midst his Plenty, / Which made surviving Kindred canty.at canty, adj.1
A. Ramsay ‘The Daft Bargain’ Fables and Tales 35: Content quoth Rab. – And slerg’d the rest o’t in his Gab.at gab, n.1
A. Ramsay ‘The Two Lizards’ Fables and Tales 26: What makes this grumbling in thy Gizzard?at gizzard, n.
A. Ramsay ‘The Caterpillar and the Ant’ Fables and Tales 19: The Caterpillar was struck dumb / And never answer’d her a Mum.at mum, n.1
A. Ramsay ‘The Twa Cut-Purses’ Fables and Tales 35: In Borrowtown there was a Fair [...] Baith Lads and Lasses busked brawly [...] And lay out ony ora Bodles On sma Gimcracks that pleas’d their Nodles.at noddle, n.
A. Ramsay ‘The Twa Cut-Purses’ Fables and Tales 36: Now possest of Rowth of Gear / Scour’d aff as lang’s the Cost was clear.at scour, v.2
A. Ramsay ‘The Chamaeleon’ Fables and Tales 23: Ye lied. And ye’re the Son of a Whore.at sonofabitch, n.
A. Ramsay Fables and Tales in Poems II (1800) 515: Ah me! you reverence’s sister, Ten times I carnally have – kist her.at kiss, v.
A. Ramsay Fables and Tales in Poems II (1800) 165: Whose kytes can streek out like raw plaider.at kite, n.
A. Ramsay Fables and Tales in Poems II (1800) 170: For nought delights him mair than knocking.at knocking, n.
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