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The Dagonet Ditties choose

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[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I guyed, but the reeler he gave me hot beef / And a scuff came about me and hollered.
at cry (hot) beef (v.) under hot beef!, excl.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: By the rattler I ride when I’ve taken my brief, / And I sling on my back an old kipsey.
at brief, n.1
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: One day I’d a spree with two finns in my brigh, / And a toy and a tackle – both red ’uns.
at brigh, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: If I pipe a good chat, why, I touch for the wedge, / But I’m not a ‘particular’ robber.
at chat, n.2
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I pulled out a chive, but I soon came to grief, / And with screws and a james I was collared.
at chiv, n.1
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I pulled out a chive, but I soon came to grief, / And with screws and a james I was collared.
at collar, v.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I smug any snowy I see on the hedge, / And I ain’t above daisies and clobber.
at daisy roots, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: A spark prop a pal (a good screwsman) and I / Had touched for in working two dead ’uns.
at dead one, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ (in Referee 12 Feb.) n.p.: My trip – cuss the day as I seen her – / She sold off my home to some pals in her mob, / For a couple of foont and ten deener.
at deener, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ (in Referee 12 Feb.) n.p.: Oh, donnys and omees, what gives me the spur, – / Is, I’m told by a mug (he tells whoppers), / That I ought to have greased to have kept out of stir / The dukes of the narks and the coppers.
at dona, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I was taking a ducat to get back to town / (I had come by the rattler to Dover).
at ducat, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I ought to have greased to have kept out of stir / The dukes of the narks and the coppers.
at grease someone’s duke (v.) under duke, n.3
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: One day I’d a spree with two finns in my brig, / And a toy and a tackle – both red ’uns.
at fin, n.2
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: My trip – cuss the day as I seen her- / She sold off my home to some pals in her mob, / For a couple of foont and ten deener.
at funt, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ (in Referee 12 Feb.) n.p.: I guyed, but the reeler he gave me hot beef / And a scuff came about me and hollered.
at guy, v.2
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘Tottie’ (in Referee 7 Nov.) n.p.: Ere her bull-dog I could stop / She had called a ‘ginger pop,’ / Who said, ‘What the “Henry Neville” / Do you think you’re doing there?’.
at Henry Neville, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I pulled out a chive, but I soon came to grief, / And with screws and a james I was collared.
at james, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘Tottie’ in Referee 7 Nov. n.p.: And I heard as off I slunk, / ‘Why, the fellow’s “Jumbo’s trunk!”’ / And the ‘Walter Joyce’ was Tottie’s / With the golden ‘Barnet Fair.’.
at jumbo’s trunk, adj.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: By the rattler I ride when I’ve taken my brief, / And I sling on my back an old kipsey.
at kipsie, n.1
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: Oh, donnys and omees, what gives me the spur, – / Is, I’m told by a mug (he tells whoppers), / That I ought to have greased to have kept out of stir / The dukes of the narks and the coppers.
at omee, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I saw as a reeler was roasting me brown, / And he rapped, ‘I shall just turn you over.’.
at turn over, v.1
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: If I pipe a good chat, why, I touch for the wedge, / But I’m not a ‘particular’ robber.
at pipe, v.3
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: A spark prop a pal (a good screwsman) and I / Had touched for in working two dead ’uns.
at prop, n.3
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I saw as a reeler was roasting me brown, / And he rapped, ‘I shall just turn you over.’.
at rap, v.1
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: By the rattler I ride when I’ve taken my brief, / And I sling on my back an old kipsey.
at rattler, n.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: One day I’d a spree with two finns in my brigh, / And a toy and a tackle – both red ’uns.
at red tackle (n.) under red, adj.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ (in Referee 12 Feb.) n.p.: One day I’d a spree with two finns in my brigh, / And a toy and a tackle – both red ’uns.
at red toy (n.) under red, adj.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad ’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: One day I’d a spree with two finns in my brigh, / And a toy and a tackle – both red ’uns.
at red ’un (n.) under red, adj.
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I saw as a reeler was roasting me brown, / And he rapped, ‘I shall just turn you over.’.
at reeler, n.2
[UK] ‘Dagonet’ ‘A Plank Bed Ballad’ in Referee 12 Feb. n.p.: I pulled out a chive, but I soon came to grief, / And with screws and a james I was collared.
at screw, n.1
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