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[UK] Stephens & Yardley in Little Jack Sheppard 31: 🎵 Lord So-and-so bolted with Thingummy’s wife.
at so-and-so, n.
[UK] Stephens & Yardley in Little Jack Sheppard 44: 🎵 I’d soar on my pinions so high / Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love.
at slap-bang, adv.
[UK] Stephens & Yardley in Little Jack Sheppard 18: 🎵 Keep the ball a-rolling a-rolling When bent up on a spree.
at bent up, adj.
[UK] Stephens & Yardley Little Jack Sheppard 50: 🎵 A little bit of Whitechapel – ‘What cheer, cull? Blow me tight!’.
at blow me tight!, excl.
[UK] Stephens & Yardley Little Jack Sheppard 17: 🎵 If we treated him the proper way his wool we’d gaily comb.
at comb someone’s hair (v.) under comb, v.
[UK] Stephens & Yardley Little Jack Sheppard 50: 🎵 A little bit of Whitechapel – ‘What cheer, cull? Blow me tight!’.
at cull, n.1
[UK] Stephens & Yardley Little Jack Sheppard 28: 🎵 In a box of the stone jug I was born / Of a hempen widow.
at hempen widow (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] Stephens & Yardley ‘All Nations’ Little Jack Sheppard 46: If it comes to foreign languages Your pipe I’ll put out bang.
at pipe, n.1
[UK] Stephens & Yardley in Little Jack Sheppard 25: 🎵 If an innocent scamp / Ever gets on the ramp I dog him wherever he goes.
at on the ramp under ramp, n.3
[UK] Stephens & Yardley Little Jack Sheppard 31: 🎵 It is constantly stated that I’m a young rip, But you mustn’t believe all you hear.
at rip, n.1
[UK] Stephens & Yardley in Little Jack Sheppard 42: 🎵 Farewell to the well known Old Bailee / Where I used to cut such a swell.
at cut a swell (v.) under swell, n.1
[UK] Stephens & Yardley in Little Jack Sheppard 31: 🎵 Lord So-and-so bolted with Thingummy’s wife.
at thingummy, n.
[UK] Stephens & Yardley Little Jack Sheppard 32: 🎵 I was call’d by my mother ‘a terrible Turk’ But you mustn’t believe all you hear.
at turk, n.1
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