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[UK] ‘The Winchester Wedding’ Cockchafer 42: They found them both down on the floor, / Having a game at push-pin!
at play at push-pin (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] ‘Cat’s-Meat Nell’ in Cockchafer 4: While Nellie, vith her barrow vaddling, / Set all the boys a laughing. / The bother of those saucy brats / Confus’d and cross’d our cries.
at bother, n.
[UK] ‘Cat’s-Meat Nell’ Cockchafer 5: I look’d for I felt so stupid, do you see, / To know vhere I vas, in wain. / To a butcher says I, ‘I’m in Queer-street.’ Says he, / ‘Why, you calf, this here is Cow-lane’.
at calf, n.1
[UK] in Cockchafer 3: [song title] Cat’s-Meat Nell.
at cat’s meat, n.
[UK] ‘The Patent S--t-Pot’ in Cockchafer 33: And her bowels they kept up a deuce of a sport, / Till at last the old lady she was taken short. / She was taken so short, with her hand to her breech, / She found that she never the closet could reach.
at caught short, adj.
[UK] ‘Patent S--t-Pot’ in Cockchafer 34: She pull’d up her clouts where young Thomas was laid.
at clout, n.1
[UK] ‘Hurrah For An Irishman’s Sprig!’ Cockchafer 20: When plac’d in the fist, what maid can resist? / So she collars the Irishman’s sprig!
at collar, v.
[UK] ‘The Crossman’s Wife’ in Cockchafer 9: Fat Betty was a crossman’s vife, / A rare flash cove vas he.
at cross-man (n.) under cross, adj.
[UK] ‘Patent S--t-Pot’ in Cockchafer 32: At last a ’cute thought struck the damsels, poor souls.
at cute, adj.
[UK] ‘Do As Father & Mother Do’ Cockchafer 44: Says Dick, ‘it’s true, a dagger long, / I have got, my sweet delight.
at dagger, n.1
[UK] ‘Make The Bed’ in Cockchafer 24: Your haunches are so plump and jolly, / Your dairies are with lust so rife.
at dairy, n.1
[UK] ‘Some Love To Push’ in Cockchafer 48: Our deer we mark in the midnight dark, / And our loaded piece is there, / Our aim we take ere our dear can wake, / And oft we shoot the hair (hare).
at deer, n.
[UK] ‘Do As Father And Mother Do’ in Cockchafer 44: Says Dick, ‘it’s true, a dagger long, / I have got, my sweet delight.’.
at dick, n.1
[UK] ‘A New Version Of Regent Street’ in Cockchafer 14: But she is one that’s worth your pelf, / Because I swab her out myself. / I’m her C.P., you may conceit, / I’m her C.P., you may conceit, / She’s the cleanest doxy in Regent Street.
at doxy, n.
[UK] ‘Cat’s-Meat Nell’ in Cockchafer 5: Elewated with liquor, I felt no dread, / And thought as how I’d buss her.
at elevated, adj.
[UK] ‘Come, Draw Your Peg, My Rum One’ in Cockchafer 21: Ah, now, your peg you’re fixing, fixing, fixing, / Drive it in quite boldly! Oh, a’nt this rummy fun?
at fix, v.2
[UK] ‘Cat’s-Meat Nell’ in Cockchafer 4: Says she, ‘yer gallous polite’.
at gallows, adv.
[UK] ‘Cat’s-Meat Nell’ in Cockchafer 4: Mr. Pieman, it’s no go, / Vith me to talk of love.
at no go, phr.
[UK] ‘My Oval Well’ Cockchafer 16: I love to feel the grass that grows / Around my well so free.
at grass, n.1
[UK] ‘Some Love To Push’ Cockchafer 48: Our deer we mark in the midnight dark, / And our loaded piece is there, / Our aim we take ere our dear can wake, / And oft we shoot the hair (hare).
at hare, n.
[UK] ‘A New Version Of Regent Street’ Cockchafer 15: To the Hens of Regent Street they’ll flock, / And each bring with him a game Cock.
at hen, n.
[UK] ‘The Patent S--t-Pot’ Cockchafer 32: For weeks they did keep up their amorous sport [...] Till one night they were all at it hard, on the floor, / When the mistress arrived, with a knock at the door.
at at it under it, n.1
[UK] ‘The Death Of Roger’ in Cockchafer 25: One morning, young Fanny she popp’d out of bed, / And went to the Jerry without any dread.
at jerry, n.5
[UK] ‘John Marrow’s Pudding’ in Cockchafer 38: For then, you must know, I felt very grand, / When John in a jiffy popp’d into my hand / His long pudding!
at jiffy, n.
[UK] ‘A New Version Of Regent Street’ Cockchafer 14: What I have heard I’ll tell to you [...] It was told me by a jilt.
at jilt, n.1
[UK] ‘The Death Of Roger’ in Cockchafer 24: Only listen to me, and I’ll tell you a tale [...] concerning a joskin, – a tight little man.
at joskin, n.
[UK] ‘The Crossman’s Wife’ Cockchafer 9: Their only kidd, a child by chance, / Vas just as fat as she.
at kid, n.1
[UK] ‘The Crossman’s Wife’ Cockchafer 9: Vat shall I do, vat shall I do, / When thou art lagg’d from me.
at lag, v.2
[UK] ‘Witcomb Bay’ in Cockchafer 12: He press’d her downy billow, / And soon he stopp’d her leak.
at leak, n.
[UK] ‘The Bit Of Leather’ Cockchafer 46: Lubin quite pleased was, and transported altogether, O. / For he had ne’er before seen a woman’s piece of leather, O [...] With his tool he stood before her eyes, twigging of her leather, O!
at leather, n.
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