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[UK] Quizzical Gaz. 27 Aug. 6/1: Sure everyone alive must know / The celebrated ‘Billy Barlow’ / [...] / And ‘Billy’ though he went to school, / Was always call’d the ‘village fool’.
at billy barlow, n.1
[UK] Quizzical Gaz. 24 Sept. 1/2: I’ll bury you dacent, and will have a big wake, / And invite lots of Greeks to be there.
at Greek, n.
[UK] Quizzical Gaz. 24 Sept. 34/1: The walking Bundle of Fat may be seen, (only sixpence each,) and consulted with, as to the terms on which his gross Body will be disposed of, by applying at Dirty Dick’s, Grubbing Ken, Lambeth Marsh.
at grubbiken, n.
[UK] Quizzical Gaz. 27 Aug. 8/2: My poor father [...] mounted a ladder , and never walked down again.
at go up the ladder (to bed) (v.) under ladder, n.
[UK] Quizzical Gaz. 27 Aug. 6/2: I’ve heard of it in ballad lingo, / And swear it by the living jingo.
at living, adj.
[UK] Quizzical Gaz. 19 Nov. 99/2: Charged with being found drunk in bed (not alone) at a notorious brothel [...] being further charged, by the Lady Matron of the Indulgence Nunnery, with acts of indecency to her.
at nunnery, n.
[UK] Quizzical Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/1: To be Sold.— A strong, staunch, steady, asound, stout, safe, sinewy servicable, strapping [...] sorrel steed of superlative symmetry styled Spanker.
at spanker, n.2
[UK] Quizzical Gaz. 27 Aug. 7/2: Joe’s patience lost, he gives her such a vop.
at whop, n.
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