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[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 9: But now she to Bridewell has punch’d it along, / My eye, Betty Martin!
at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 3: My Nancy is gone, and my joys are all fled, / And my arse hangs behind me as heavy as lead.
at arse, n.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 3: And I still was as smart as a carrot all day.
at ...a carrot (new scraped), ...half-scraped under smart as..., adj.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 3: I was so good-natur’d, so bobbish and gay.
at bobbish, adj.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 3: Stop your clack, and be damn’d t’ye and hear me complain.
at clack, n.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 7: But now she mills doll, tho’ the greens are still there.
at mill doll, v.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 11: No duds in my pocket, no sea-coal to burn!
at duds, n.1
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 9: To roll in her ivory, to pleasure her eye / To be tipt by her tongue, on her stomach to lie.
at roll in someone’s ivory/ivories (v.) under ivory, n.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 3: My time, O ye Kiddies, was happily spent.
at kiddy, n.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 11: Will no blood-hunting foot-pad, that hears me complain, / Stop the wind of that nabbing-cull, constable Payne?
at nabman (n.) under nab, v.1
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 3: But since she is nabb’d, and has left me behind, / What a marvellous change on a sudden I find?
at nab, v.1
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 9: Ah! rot ye, I see what it was you were at.
at rot you! (excl.) under rot!, excl.1
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 11: What kiddy’s so rum as to get himself scragged.
at rum, adj.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 11: What kiddy’s so rum as to get himself scragged.
at scrag, v.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 11: What kiddy’s so rum as to get himself scragged.
at scragged, adj.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 11: No duds in my pocket, no sea-coal to burn!
at sea-coal (n.) under sea, n.
[UK] R. Tomlinson Sl. Pastoral 11: Zounds! what shall I do? I shall die in a ditch.
at zounds!, excl.
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