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Burlesque 83: Is the old Letcher still so tough, A Swinge-bow of so high renown, A Wench can’t sooner take him down?at swinge-bow (n.) under swinge, v.
Burlesque 83: Is the old Letcher still so tough, A Swinge-bow of so high renown, A Wench can’t sooner take him down? Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 527: This pair of bloods [...] Not care’d a straw what asius’ crew / Of roaring, noisy whelps could do.at not care a straw, v.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 21: Blast my liver, pluck, and heart, / If thou’rt a fighter worth a f--t!at not worth a fart, phr.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 213: Which will not turn out worth a t--.at worth a turd under worth a..., phr.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 85: For wives they no longer sob, / Finding that they must bear a bob.at bear a bob, v.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 21: I care a fart for none but you.at not care a fart, v.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 504: But whether we are drubb’d or not, / achilles does not care a jot.at not care a jot, v.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 288: For nestor cries, Aums ace; you’re out.at ambs-ace, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 363: We’ll send some people in their places, / With aldermanic guts and faces.at alderman, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 109: A pail / Brim full of humming Lincoln ale.at humming ale, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 368: For heathen Gods, if you’ll inquire, / Are pleas’d when all the fat’s i’th fire.at fat is in the fire, (all) the, phr.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 31: The lousy knave / Has stole the plumpest girl I have; / Frump’d and abus’d me all to muck.at all to pieces, adv.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 391: She curs’d till all the ground look’d blue.at till all is blue, phr.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 50: If the tag-rags agree to go, / The captains then must roar out, No.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 507: We therefore cook’d him up a dish / Of lean bull-beef, with cabbage fry’d [...] Bubble they call this dish, and squeak.at bubble and squeak, n.1
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 278: Challenge out / The boldest bruiser to a bout / At quarter-staff or cudgel play, / Or flats or sharps, or any way.at flats and sharps, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 24: Then there was cineus, a queer bitch / As e’er was ’nointed for the itch: / I’ve often seen that rogue for fun, / Make constables and watchmen run. [Ibid.] 138: The arms his ragamuffins bore / Were broomsticks daub’d with brimstone o’er, / With which themselves they us’d to switch, / And call’d it ’nointing for the itch.at anoint (with birchen salve), v.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 320: But see to what your bragging comes; / You shake our walls! you kiss our bums.at kiss someone’s arse, v.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 29: The ticket-porters look’d so so, / And hung an a--se, but forc’d to go.at hang an arse under arse, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 337: He one evening with the maid / A game at pushpin had begun.at play at push-pin (v.) under play (at)..., v.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 70: Sink me, says he, you moon-ey’d loon, / Got on a bitch by some baboon, / (For nothing but baboon and punkee, / Could get a thing so like a monkey).at baboon, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 76: They chew’d their ’bacco three times o’er.at bacca, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 532: The eel made such a rout, / And in his gut so whisk’d about, / At his back-door he let him out.at back-door, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 485: When this bully-back had gone, / ulysses found himself alone.at bully back, n.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 444: The moment that his loving cousin / Awak’d, he saw a baker’s dozen / of Thracians kill’d.at baker’s dozen, n.1
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 104: My little girl, if folks don’t bam me, / Cries bitterly to see her mammy.at bam, v.1
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 380: A man may be bamboozl’d once, / As I was, by that thick-scull’d dunce.at bamboozle, v.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 402: Tho’ you should escape / Without his help from this d----d scrape, / And save your hide from being bang’d, / He hopes to live to see you hang’d.at bang, v.1
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 23: This said, his broomstick with a twang / He dash’d upon the ground slap bang.at slap-bang, adv.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 207: He drubb’d a banging great Scotch drover, / A raw-bon’d loon, so large and strong.at banging, adj.
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