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[Ire] ‘The Distressed Rake’ Chap Book Songs 3: You’re not the maid that should me degrade, / Or any young man for being airy.
at airy, adj.1
[Ire] ‘The Vicar & Moses’ Chap Book Songs 2: O’er a jorum of nappy, quite pleasant and happy.
at nappy (ale), n.
[Ire] ‘The Wee Wee Bag of Potatoes’ Chap Book Songs 5: Oh how he batter’d her [...] how he twangled her, with his Wee Wee Bag of Potatoes.
at bag, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Distressed Rake’ Chap Book Songs 3: Before I was ty’d to this damnable bride / I wore a good hat and a beaver.
at beaver, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs No. 5 7: He battered a breach, but missed his reach, / His faggots being too small to fill the ditch, / She off with disdain did fling him O.
at breach, n.
[Ire] ‘The Vicar and Moses’ Chap Book Songs 4: Good people let’s pray, put the corpse tother way; [...] ’Tis best to take care tho’ the sages declare, / A mortum caput can’t tremble.
at caput, adj.
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs 7: And soon he got on the cover’d way, / He battered a breach, but missed his reach.
at covered way, n.
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs 7: The Champion came as a champion should, / In two platoons he kneeled, stopped and stood, / He filled up the ditch with a faggot of strength, / And rammed his charge with a rammer of length.
at ditch, n.
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs 6: She spyed a Piper peeping out, / Between two little drummers he lay.
at drummer, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs 7: The Champion came as a champion should, / In two platoons he kneeled, stopped and stood, / He filled up the ditch with a faggot of strength, / And rammed his charge with a rammer of length.
at faggot, n.3
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs 6: The lieutenant came, / Presented his pike and saluted the dame [...] There is room for you, she replyed, below.
at pike, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs 6: She spyed a Piper peeping out, / Between two little drummers he lay.
at pipe, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs 7: Dear Sir, I like well your company, / When you play again I pray march slow, / And a guard-house make of my Gobbio-O.
at play, v.
[Ire] ‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs 7: He rammed his charge with a rammer of length / Have a care said he, there, there, said she.
at rammer, n.
[Ire] ‘The New Dhooraling’ Chap Book Songs 4: The sporting girls take great delight in his sweet company day and night.
at sporting lady (n.) under sporting, adj.
[Ire] ‘The Wee Wee Bag of Potatoes’ Chap Book Songs 5: Oh how he batter’d her [...] how he twangled her, with his Wee Wee Bag of Potatoes.
at twang, v.1
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 5: Our barkers, so rusty were sure.
at barker, n.1
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ Chap Book Songs 4: You know One-ey’d Bid of de alley; / De heffer was mine on de lay.
at biddy, n.2
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 3: His grinders rattled in his jaw-wags, like a pair of white-headed fortune-tellers in an elbow-shaker’s bone box.
at bones, n.1
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 3: So ’fore all your coppers are spint, / Take warning in time, as I charge you.
at copper, n.
[Ire] ‘Davy Blakeney’ Chap Book Songs 2: Instantly she mounted him and then she managed bravely [...] And did she do it, do it, do it.
at do it, v.1
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ Chap Book Songs 3: His face look’d for all the world like de rotten rump of a Thomas-street blue-arse, and his grinders rattled in his jaw-wags, like a pair of white-headed fortune-tellers in an elbow-shaker’s bone box.
at elbow-shaker (n.) under elbow, n.1
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ Chap Book Songs 3: His face look’d for all the world like de rotten rump of a Thomas-street blue-arse, and his grinders rattled in his jaw-wags.
at grinder, n.1
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 4: He was steel in de hart, blood to de back bone, flint in de nuckle-dabbers, Manley’s mettle in his lims, your soul!
at knuckle-dabs (n.) under knuckle, n.
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 4: You know One-ey’d Bid of de alley; / De heffer was min on de lay.
at lay, n.2
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 3: So ’fore all your coppers are spint, / Take warning in time, as I charge you; / On your marrow bones down and repint.
at marrowbones, n.
[Ire] ‘Morgan Rattler’ in Chap Book Songs 3: At night with the girls he still is a flatterer, / They never seem coy, but tremble for joy, / When they get a taste of his Morgan Rattler.
at morgan rattler, n.
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 5: Neck lace is de word! and we must all be in at de Hemp-post in de end.
at necklace, n.
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 4: Oh! she was my own heart’s delight, / For her on the padroul I scamper’d.
at on the pad under pad, n.1
[Ire] ‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ Chap Book Songs 5: When we will upon the padding course, Neck lace is de word!
at padding, n.1
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