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The Cuckold’s Nest choose

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[UK] ‘A Wife’s Appetite’ Cuckold’s Nest 43: The morn they were wed the maid said to her bunny, / To-night you shall make poor old Roger feel funny. / So she curled it and frizzed it, and made it all right, / Then wrapped it up warm, fit for action at night.
at action, n.
[UK] ‘Sam Swipes’ Cuckold’s Nest 21: She twigged his long musket, and could not stand mute, / He primed it so quickly, and it came to pass, / That he banged his musket balls against Sally’s ---.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘Slashing Costermonger’ Cuckold’s Nest 10: Of darters I’ve got two or three, / Too praise them none can cease, sirs, / And, just to show ’em off, they’ve got / A pretty ass a-piece, sirs.
at ass, n.
[UK] ‘Sam Swipes’ Cuckold’s Nest 21: She twigged his long musket, and could not stand mute, / He primed it so quickly, and it came to pass, / That he banged his musket balls against Sally’s ---.
at balls, n.
[UK] ‘The Periwinkle’ in Cuckold’s Nest 7: And down fell his breeches, right bang before her, / And showed all his Wickey icky, &c.
at bang, adv.
[UK] ‘The Mouthful’ in Cuckold’s Nest 14: To tell you, sweet Kate, I am not ashamed, / When you fell, I saw you’d got a mouth down below, / And if you’d let me fill it, you’d banish my woe.
at down below, n.1
[UK] ‘The Lady’s Snatchbox’ Cuckold’s Nest 27: So, you that are fond of the spree, / And are not as senseless as blocks, / You quickly will hasten to me, / For a snatch at my little snatch box.
at block, n.1
[UK] ‘The Lady’s Snatchbox’ in Cuckold’s Nest 26: The tailor is not such a goose [...] Of his bodkin he’ll make good use, / When he twigs my hairy snatch box.
at bodkin, n.1
[UK] ‘Slashing Costermonger’ in Cuckold’s Nest 10: I’ve got a leery moke asides, / All others he does brown, sirs.
at brown, v.1
[UK] ‘A Wife’s Appetite’ in Cuckold’s Nest 44: ‘Drive away, Roger! drive on,’ says she, / ‘Another good push, and you’ll murder the flea.’ / But, exhausted at last, the old buffer, good lack, / Was forced to give over, and lay on his back.
at buffer, n.3
[UK] ‘The Fine Young Common Prostitute’ Cuckold’s Nest 41: She kept a regular bully big, / They call him Irish Mike, / He collared all her ochre, / And he had meat when he liked.
at bully, n.1
[UK] ‘Fine Young Common Prostitute’ Cuckold’s Nest 41: One night, she met a cove / Who nearly cracked her bum, / Because he really had, O dear, / Such a stunning rum ti-tum.
at bum, n.1
[UK] ‘A Wife’s Appetite’ in Cuckold’s Nest 43: The morn they were wed the maid said to her bunny, / To-night you shall make poor old Roger feel funny.
at bunny, n.1
[UK] ‘Slashing Costermonger’ Cuckold’s Nest 11: My vife, she’s such a taste refined, / All hearts she must be vinning, / For ven the turfing trade is bad, / She gets blunt by cat skinning.
at skin the cat (v.) under cat, n.2
[UK] ‘They’re All Shooting’ in Cuckold’s Nest 36: My wife collars the gun of a tailor in the kitchen.
at collar, v.
[UK] ‘Slashing Costermonger’ in Cuckold’s Nest 10: For carrot or cod, no cove, egod, / Than me can come it stronger.
at come it strong (v.) under come it, v.1
[UK] ‘Lamentation Of The Bawds Of London’ in Cuckold’s Nest 17: Where a swell took his mot, and to snooze there, I ween, sirs, / Dropt his five couters, and thought it not mean, sirs.
at couter, n.1
[UK] ‘Sam Swipes’ Cuckold’s Nest 21: The next was a builder, so stout and so rare, / Who heard that her kitchen was out of repair, / He brought his strong tools, and at it went smack, / And shoved a wedge ten inches long, up her ...
at crack, n.3
[UK] ‘Lamentation Of The Bawds Of London’ in Cuckold’s Nest 16: No cribs like ‘the key’ are now to be seen, sirs, / Where a swell took his mot, and to snooze there, I ween, sirs.
at crib, n.1
[UK] ‘The Fine Young Common Prostitute’ in Cuckold’s Nest 42: She died, [...] And the jury said, she croaked through eating / Too much stinking meat.
at croak, v.2
[UK] ‘Tale Of A Shift’ in Cuckold’s Nest 35: Her lover was a perfect pest, / He tore me off (I do not jest), / And travelled into her cuckoo’s nest.
at cuckoo’s nest, n.
[UK] ‘Sam Swipes’ Cuckold’s Nest 20: He took pity, and seeing her in want, / He slapped the calf’s tail right bang up her ---.
at cunt, n.
[UK] ‘Rare Old Root’ in Cuckold’s Nest 9: It’s seen many ruffs and pretty white duffs, / And has long been exposed to h-air.
at duff, n.2
[UK] ‘The Dutch Women’s Duffs’ Cuckold’s Nest 30: The women all were Dutch built, we find, / And each had got such a large behind, / Such jolly big rumps were never seen.
at Dutch, adj.1
[UK] ‘Slashing Costermonger’ in Cuckold’s Nest 11: I’ve made my sons quite gemmen, too, / And they’re such slashing men, sirs, / One of ’em keeps a fencing crib, / And two a bawdyken, sirs.
at fencing crib (n.) under fencing, n.
[UK] ‘The Mouthful’ in Cuckold’s Nest 13: One morn in the summer this old swell walked out [...] When he saw pretty Kitty, with looks fit to kill.
at fit to kill under fit to..., phr.
[UK] ‘Slashing Costermonger’ Cuckold’s Nest 11: I’m quite a sporting karacter, / I wisits flashy places.
at flashy, adj.
[UK] ‘The Rare Old Root’ in Cuckold’s Nest 9: Then here’s too the root, the rare old root, / That stands whenever ’tis shown, / And still may it be to that flower pot free, / Which the ladies only own.
at flower-pot (n.) under flower, n.
[UK] ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Cuckold’s Nest 48: The girl with the flowers.
at flowers, n.
[UK] ‘Farewell to Sal’s Fountain’ Cuckold’s Nest 33: My Sal’s little fountain / Is so plump and stout, / With scarce any room / For the stream to run out.
at fountain (of love), n.
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