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The Black Joke choose

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[UK] ‘Oh! Lady Touch That Lute’ in Black Joke 37: O’er yonder walk, we’ll quickly climb, / And thro’ the back slum creep.
at back slum (n.) under back, adj.2
[UK] ‘The Bean-Tosser’ in Black Joke 24: His bean-tosser he carried it about in his hand, / Hey Randy, dandy O / He astonish’d them all, when he made a stand.
at bean-tosser, n.
[UK] ‘Those Ladies Queams’ in Black Joke 9: Dame nature she form’d me / As smooth as any deal board, / My lot in every place, / By long Jok-s was to feel bor’d; / The Coves now are with me, / I swear this is ’cause d’ye see, / I now have got split vhiskers. [...] I’m known by all the friskers / To have about my parts, / A pair of prime split vhiskers.
at split beaver (n.) under beaver, n.1
[UK] ‘Milk From The Bull’ Black Joke 17: Phelim being no stick, he tipt it her quick, / And gave her a nice belly full.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] ‘Milk From The Bull’ in Black Joke 16: For he knew, the sly elf, / That a widow with pelf, / Wanted bulling—and she dwelt just by.
at bull, v.1
[UK] ‘The Costermonger & His Voman’ in Black Joke 39: His conk vos long and red and pimpled.
at conk, n.1
[UK] ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Black Joke 47: The clever waiter, who puts the cork in first, and the liquor afterwards.
at cork, n.1
[UK] ‘Rummy Toasts And Sentiments’ in Black Joke 45: The thatched cottage, at the bottom of Snow Hill.
at thatched house (under the hill), n.
[UK] ‘Oh! Lady Touch That Lute’ in Black Joke 37: Tho’ we are now without a mag, / We’ll soon have lots of wedge, / At Ikey’s sell a glorious swag, / And all our slashes fledge.
at ikey, n.
[UK] ‘The Standing Jok-E!’ in Black Joke 23: There’s nothing like a jok-e, / Or a long Tongo.
at jock, n.1
[UK] ‘The Middle Leg’ in Black Joke 31: He died — but though he was no more, / His middle leg was as stiff as before.
at middle leg (n.) under middle, adj.
[UK] ‘Those Ladies Queams’ in Black Joke 6: Those Ladies Queams its hard to please, / Tho’ for a time we give them ease, / They’re ever craving after more. / Those Ladies Queams are quite a bore.
at quim, n.
[UK] ‘Those Ladies Queams’ Black Joke 6: They’re not content unless they spend, / All he has got to serve their end.
at serve, v.
[UK] ‘Flare Up!’ Black Joke 5: And when he took her by the hand, / It brought his truncheon to a stand.
at stand, n.
[UK] ‘The Bawdy-House Row’ Black Joke 7: She had drawn a Gentleman’s cly, / Of his gold ticker and seals so sly.
at ticker, n.1
[UK] ‘Flare Up!’ in Black Joke 5: He took her to a baudy-ken [...] And then he did the trick they say.
at do the trick (v.) under trick, n.1
[UK] ‘Flare Up!’ in Black Joke 4: His truncheon was so stout and long [...] Some scores of them he got with child.
at truncheon, n.
[UK] ‘The Bean-Tosser’ Black Joke 23: This mighty Turk, was a man of great parts [...] Could bore a great hole in the feminine hearts, / With his wolloping, dolloping dandy O.
at walloping, adj.
[UK] ‘Oh! Lady Touch That Lute’ in Black Joke 37: Tho’ we are now without a mag, / We’ll soon have lots of wedge.
at wedge, n.1
[UK] ‘Pat Fagan’ in Black Joke 13: Six whacking big chairmen in togs queerly dressed, / Supported poor Pat to his last home of rest.
at whacking, adj.
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