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The Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet choose

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[UK] ‘The W-hole of the Ladies’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 12: The parson so pious may preach ’till all blue.
at till all is blue, phr.
[UK] ‘Chapter of T--d’s’ Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 43: This world’s but a dunyken – mankind are only t--ds! / For let folks be in any life [...] They find it necessary to get their business done!
at business, n.
[UK] ‘The Bastard’s Christening’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 12: All the cross coves in Vestminster.
at cross-cove (n.) under cross, adj.
[UK] ‘Riding St. George!’ Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 31: Your crupper is just the thing! [Ibid.] 33: For an hour or two with such joy, / She handled and dandled my crupper.
at crupper, n.
[UK] ‘A Blowen in a Alley Pigg’d’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 35: For Sal took to the sweep again, / Cause doughy had lost his member.
at doughy, n.1
[UK] ‘Chapter of T--d’s’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 43: This world’s but a dunyken – mankind are only t--ds!
at dunnaken, n.
[UK] ‘No More Shall the Schicksters of Eady Sing’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 24: He poulticed and doctor’d each poor fairy thing / With remedies slap up and prime!
at fairy, n.1
[UK] ‘The Bastard’s Christening’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 12: There vos leery Joe, the flue faker, / Who’d just left the Stone Pitcher.
at flue-faker (n.) under flue, n.1
[UK] ‘The Bastard’s Christening’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 14: Our appetites you flummux.
at flummox, v.
[UK] ‘Drawing Out the Long Tooth’ Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 41: He’d ventured to grope her too oft on the sly.
at grope, v.
[UK] ‘Riding St. George!’ Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 30: I war’nt half a good ’un to ride!
at not half, phr.
[UK] ‘The Bastard’s Christening’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 12: There vos leery Joe, the flue faker, / Who’d just left the Stone Pitcher.
at stone jug, n.1
[UK] ‘The Bastard’s Christening’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 12: There vos bow-legged Bet, and randy Sal, / Leery Suke, who had never been scragg’d; / Flare-up Peg, and fat-arse Meg, / Who better had been twice lagg’d.
at lag, v.2
[UK] ‘The Bastard’s Christening’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 12: There vos bow-legged Bet, and randy Sal, / Leery Suke, who had never been scragg’d.
at leery, adj.
[UK] ‘Rural Felicity!’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 27: The sweet mossy cave is my pride.
at mossy bank (n.) under mossy, adj.2
[UK] ‘Chapter of T--d’s’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 43: The world’s but a dunyken – mankind are only t--ds! [...] The rake he is a nightman, both in deed and heart.
at nightman (n.) under night, n.
[UK] Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 34: [title] A Blowen in a Alley Pigg’d.
at pig, v.1
[UK] ‘A Blowen in a Alley Pigg’d’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 34: A randy blowen truly; / Who walk’d the pave so gally rigg’d.
at pound the pavement (v.) under pound, v.2
[UK] ‘Chapter of T--d’s’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 43: This world’s but a dunyken – mankind are only t--ds! / The parson’s a Sir Reverence, and at best but an old f--t.
at sir-reverence, n.
[UK] ‘The Bastard’s Christening’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 12: There vos leery Joe, the flue faker, / Who’d just left the Stone Pitcher; [...] And Bob the schofel gritcher [sic].
at shoful-pitcher (n.) under shoful, n.
[UK] ‘A Blowen in a Alley Pigg’d’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 34: Now Joe, at night went on the sneak.
at go on the sneak (v.) under sneak, n.1
[UK] ‘Riding St. George!’ Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 32: I really were pleased wi’ the sport.
at sport, n.
[UK] ‘The Bride!’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 28: She takes the staff of life in hand.
at staff of life (n.) under staff, n.
[UK] ‘The Spring Leg’ Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 35: He could hardly stir a peg.
at stir one’s stumps (v.) under stir, v.
[UK] ‘The Amorous Parson and the Farmer’s Wife’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 5: The parson’s fat gills grew quite pale at this news, / For he guess’d he should get a good topper.
at topper, n.2
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