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[US] ‘A Pair of Irish Janus’s’ Champagne Charley Songster 46: barney: ’Pon my sowl , I’m glad to meet ye. pat: By gob! you may say that. [Ibid.] ‘Oh, Fair Maid of Passage’ 63: Or, begorra, I’ll die / Like a pig in a stye.
at begorra!, excl.
[US] ‘Brookes’ Medley’ in Champagne Charley Songster 24: I’ll mash him on the bugle.
at bugle, n.1
[US] ‘The Jolly Tall Oysterman’ Champagne Charley Songster 40: His dear Leander, a young prairie chicken that lived on Staten Island.
at chicken, n.
[US] ‘There’s Nothing Like Raising the Wind’ in Champagne Charley Songster 27: I sold the teapot and the kettle, the nightcap that goes on my head [...] To leave this ere choker I’m willing – I’ll come and release it next week.
at choker, n.1
[US] ‘Spanking Jack’ in Champagne Charley Songster 54: [as cit. 1800].
at cut one’s cable (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] ‘The Jolly Tall Oysterman’ in Champagne Charley Songster 40: Get me my big harpoon, / I’ll get into the fishing boat and fix the fellow soon.
at fix, v.1
[US] ‘There’s Nothing Like Raising the Wind’ Champagne Charley Songster 27: I’ve been on the fuddle a week now.
at fuddle, n.
[US] ‘Spanking Jack’ in Champagne Charley Songster 55: [as cit. 1800].
at pop off the hooks (v.) under pop off, v.1
[US] ‘A Pair of Irish Janus’s’ Champagne Charley Songster 46: We’ll make the spalpeens shout, / When on their sconce we’ll rattle.
at sconce, n.1
[US] ‘The Joys of Sleighing’ in Champagne Charley Songster 37: Abreast for miles along we spank.
at spank, v.2
[US] ‘Spanking Jack’ in Champagne Charley Songster 53: [as cit. 1800].
at spanking, adj.
[US] ‘There’s Nothing Like Raising the Wind’ in Champagne Charley Songster 26: There’s nothing like wetting your throttle, / And drink like a cock till you die.
at wet one’s throttle (v.) under wet, v.
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