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[US] ‘Devoted to Mirth & Sarcasm’ Splifincator 1:7 27 Aug. 2/1: Johnny Bull has at length obliged his naughty Parliament to reduce the stamp duty on newspapers to one penny, and Johnny Croppo, on the other side of the channel is obliged to allow the ‘citizen king’ a guard of eighty thousand soldiers.
at John Bull, n.1
[US] ‘Devoted to Mirth & Sarcasm’ Splifincator 1:7 27 Aug. 2/1: Johnny Bull has at length obliged his naughty Parliament to reduce the stamp duty on newspapers to one penny, and Johnny Croppo, on the other side of the channel is obliged to allow the ‘citizen king’ a guard of eighty thousand soldiers.
at crappo, n.
[US] ‘Devoted to Mirth and Sarcasm’ Splifincator 1:7 27 Aug. 2/1: Johnny Bull has at length obliged his naughty Parliament to reduce the stamp duty on newspapers to one penny, and Johnny Croppo, on the other side of the channel is obliged to allow the ‘citizen king’ a guard of eighty thousand soldiers.
at Johnny Crapose (n.) under johnny-, pfx
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