1868 ‘Mincemeat, or Chop, Chop, Chop’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 28: When this fellow made free, it was all up with me.at all up with under all up, adj.
1868 ‘Susan’s Sunday Out’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 24: And all the loose tobacco she finds in empty jars, / She gives me, and oftentimes a bundle of cigars.at bundle, n.1
1868 ‘The Musical Party’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 67: He said ‘he would give us a comical ditty, / If we’d join in the coal-box,’ that was his slang.at coal-box (n.) under coal, n.1
1868 ‘The Stirabout Pot’ My Young Wife and I Songster 38: Oh, my cod’s head’s stewing in her pot.at cod’s head, n.
1868 ‘Sweet Jenny’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 70: So farewell to the violets / And the moo-cows so brown.at moo-cow, n.
1868 ‘I Am A Downy Bird’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 42: I am a downy bird, / No green in me they see.at downy bird (n.) under downy, adj.1
1868 ‘The Stirabout Pot’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 37: Her principal bit of furniture / Was a ducky little stirabout pot.at ducky, adj.
1868 ‘High Low Jacky’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 33: I play the ‘deuce’ with ‘dummies,’ there I have such winning ways.at dummy, n.1
1868 ‘I Am A Downy Bird’ My Young Wife and I Songster 43: Now to be sold or ‘fiddled’ / This covey knows too much.at fiddle, v.2
1868 ‘Paddy Miles’ My Young Wife and I Songster 60: I flourished my sprig of shillely, / An’ smattered their gobs so genteelly.at gob, n.1
1868 ‘The Stirabout Pot’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 38: The pot slipp’d down below his nose. / To raise it up in vain he tried – / The more he hooshed, it tighter got.at hoosh, v.
1868 ‘Paddy Miles’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 59: The Jackeens kept calling meself to annoy, / There goes Paddy Miles, he’s a Limerick boy.at jackeen, n.
1868 ‘Susan’s Sunday Out’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 24: She keeps me well in ‘pannun,’ that’s what makes me look so stout, / And don’t I just blow out my kite.at blow out the kite (v.) under kite, n.
1868 ‘I Am A Downy Bird’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 43: I’ve owed five quarters rent, / And wouldn’t ‘shoot the moon’.at shoot the moon (v.) under moon, n.
1868 ‘Paddy Miles’ My Young Wife and I Songster 59: I made up my mind for to leave the ould sod.at Old Sod, n.
1868 in My Young Wife and I Songster 44: [song title] I’m Off To Paddy’s Land.at paddy land (n.) under Paddy, n.
1868 ‘Susan’s Sunday Out’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 24: She keeps me well in ‘pannun,’ that’s what makes me look so stout.at pannam, n.
1868 ‘The Waterford Boys’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 54: They ruin my trade, and I’m not worth a rap.at not worth a rap under rap, n.2
1868 ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 52: Down among the pigs, / I played some funny rigs.at rig, n.2
1868 ‘It’s Astonishing How It Is Done’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 14: A Chap to get along in this wide world of ours, / Must have his cranium screwed on the right way.at have one’s head screwed on (v.) under screw, v.
1868 ‘It’s Astonishing How It Is Done’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 14: I soft-soaped her over, and very soon could see, / My gammon caused her soft heart to relent.at soft soap, v.
1868 ‘I Am A Downy Bird’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 43: I’ve owed five quarters rent, / And wouldn’t ‘shoot the moon,’ / To pay it been content, / Oh, wasn’t I a spoon?at spoon, n.
1868 ‘I Am A Downy Bird’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 43: I once was spoonified, / For which I had to pay.at spoonified (adj.) under spoon, n.
1868 ‘Paddy Miles’ in My Young Wife and I Songster 59: Some blackguards would hit me a wollop.at wallop, n.1