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[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: A swigging gin we’ll spend our time, / Agreed, said she, that’s bang up prime.
at bang-up prime, adj.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw & Polly Clark’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: One night quite bang up to the Mark!Ri tol de rol. / A drunken swell met Polly Clark.
at bang-up, adj.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: She got no max, so blow’d up well [...] At length she vow’d she’d serve him out.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw & Polly Clark’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: He dreamt his wife had from him fled, / Ri tol de rol / Then full of joy he ’woke, it’s true, / and found his rib had prov’d untrue, / and bolted with the lord knows who.
at bolt, v.
[UK] ‘Bundles of Truth’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 5: Lawyers deal in botheration.
at botheration, n.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: At length she vow’d she’d serve him out, / Bung up his eyes and crack his snout.
at bung up, v.
[UK] ‘Pedlar Girl’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 8: I’ll tie a true lover’s knot with you, my little chuck.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: There now, said she, you’ll hold your prate, / For your claret flows at prime rate.
at claret, n.
[UK] ‘Clown’s Peep into the Seraglio’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 3: When the grey mare is the better horse—and if the Ottomy ladies had but a little hedification at Billingsgate, the flat fish would soon prove themselves fine soles, and make it all hot cockles with the musclemen.
at play at hot cockles (v.) under cockles, n.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: At length she vow’d she’d serve him out, / Bung up his eyes and crack his snout, / And send the duds all up the spout.
at duds, n.1
[UK] ‘Bundles of Truth’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 6: Boney a fat lie can tell.
at fat, adj.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: Calls him spooney Jonny Raw; Ri tol de rol. / Then claps her fins and bullies him.
at fin, n.1
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Coll. of Songs 4: Thus she would bore him with her jaw, / Ri tol de rol. / And call him spooney Jonny Raw.
at jaw, n.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw & Polly Clark’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: Thus she would bore him with her jaw, / Ri tol de rol. / And call him spooney Jonny Raw.
at Johnny Raw, n.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: He dreamt his wife had from him fled, / Ri tol de rol / Then full of joy he ’woke, it’s true, / and found his rib had prov’d untrue, / and bolted with the lord knows who.
at Lord knows under Lord, n.1
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: She got no max, so blow’d up well.
at max, n.
[UK] ‘Clown’s Peep into the Seraglio’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 3: In Turkey heads and tails depend all on the toss up of a ha’penny; and when the Sultan wants the mopusses, he orders them to strangle the first bashaw they can catch.
at mopus, n.
[UK] ‘Clown’s Peep into the Seraglio’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 3: When the grey mare is the better horse — and if the Ottomy ladies had but a little hedification at Billingsgate, the flat fish would soon prove themselves fine soles, and make it all hot cockles with the musclemen.
at muscle, n.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: He cried, you Pol I’ll break your pate, Ri tol de rol. / For everything that I have got, / You’ve hauled off to the pop shop.
at pop shop (n.) under pop, v.2
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: He dreamt his wife had from him fled, / Ri tol de rol / Then full of joy he ’woke, it’s true, / and found his rib had prov’d untrue.
at rib, n.1
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: She got no max, so blow’d up well [...] At length she vow’d she’d serve him out.
at serve out (v.) under serve, v.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: Thus she would bore him with her jaw, / Ri tol de rol. / And call him spooney Jonny Raw.
at spoony, adj.
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw & Polly Clark’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: At length she vow’d she’d serve him out, / Bung up his eyes and crack his snout, / And send the duds all up the spout.
at up the spout under spout, n.2
[UK] ‘Jonny Raw & Polly Clark’ Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: With that she gave her arm a twister, / Ri tol de rol / and tipt him such a precious fister.
at tip, v.1
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