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Homer Travestie choose

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[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 109: Who like an errant Jack-o-dandy, / Thinks Troy his own as safe as brandy.
at jack-a-dandy, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 191: Tho’ if the gods will take my part; / For Jove I shall not care a f—t.
at not care a fart, v.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 192: And all because that rogue on Ida, / Thought your affair a span too wide a.
at affair, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 66: With mutton chops, and tart, and custard, / And humming beer as strong as mustard.
at humming ale, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 93: But he, of no one soul afraid, / swore blood and oons, he’d keep the maid.
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 138: Who fight, as if inspir’d by Mars, / Or who, like Dutchmen, hang an a--se.
at hang an arse under arse, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 81: This said, the bully back of Troy / Stretch’d out his arms to take his boy.
at bully back, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 203: What pity ’tis, that rogues so base, / Should thus bamboozle Jove’s own race.
at bamboozle, v.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 137: They’ll be sorry, and fit to hang, / To hear how we the Trojans bang.
at bang, v.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 3: She in his beaver stuck a candle, / Which made him cut a dreadful figure.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 47: The Greek and Trojan hosts together / Couldn’t make such noise as this bell-wether / Roaring.
at bell-wether, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1797) II 31: You think the rock of Troy / Some chuckle-headed booby boy.
at booby, adj.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 7: I value not a fig their bouncing, / They want a little of my trouncing.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 207: And all day long / They bowz’d about, and had a song.
at bouse, v.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 89: Thus welcome are these roaring boys, / Both to the Dardan troops and Troy’s.
at roaring boy, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 85: Bravo! old boy! the king replies.
at old boy, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 63: Soon as they felt his strokes and thwacks, / The brims all fell upon their backs.
at brim, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 202: My dearest bro. for this did I / Desire a truce, zounds! I could cry.
at bro, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 62: What could the bubbl’d king do better / Than cheat him with uriah’s letter?
at bubbled, adj.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 179: Her fine alabaster bubbies, / Her eyes of jet, and lips of rubies.
at bubby, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 191: Well hast thou spoke, / My much-respected bully rock.
at bully-rock (n.) under bully, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 134: That bully rock, the bold Tydides, / First leap’d the ditch which three feet wide is.
at bully-rock (n.) under bully, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 77: Go, bully, go, and learn at school, / First to obey, and then to rule.
at bully, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 189: With nimble bum, or nimbler wrist, / She guides his weapon where she list; / Nay more, a touch of her soft hand, / If fallen down, will make him stand.
at bum, n.1
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 64: He pray’d, and in a minute strait, / The carrot-pated God took flight.
at carrot-pated (adj.) under carrot, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 140: Long since I pulled out Hector’s eyes, / But your great chucklehead denies.
at chucklehead, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1797) II 31: You think the rock of Troy / Some chuckle-headed booby boy.
at chuckleheaded, adj.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 212: Here they sat down, when Nestor’s tongue / Its usual clack began to run.
at clack, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 87: For some bitch / Had given half the troops the itch; / And by a like unseen mishap, / The other half had got the cl—p.
at clap, n.
[UK] Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 59: Juno at last was over-aw’d, / Or Jove had been well clapper-claw’d.
at clapperclaw, v.
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