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The Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster choose

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[US] ‘The Irish Jig’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 20: Then a fig for your new-fashioned waltzes.
at fig, a, n.
[US] ‘Parody on When This Cruel War Is Over’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 10: Call me fond names darling – call me a ‘beat’ [...] whose fingers so nimble / To shuffle the cards or ‘rig the thimble’.
at beat, n.3
[US] ‘Paddy Burke’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 66: Be jabers, the first man I saw comin’ at me was two brickbats!
at bejabers!, excl.
[US] ‘Rapperty’s Party’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 50: Paddy Dougherty’s wife – a neat, tidy bit.
at bit, n.1
[US] ‘Widow Mulroony’s Ball’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 19: Tim Mulkeaghy struck out at poor Micky Gerall – / So began the blue murder at Mulroony’s ball.
at blue murder, n.
[US] ‘Paddy’s Island of Green’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 30: Ah, pooh, botheration, dear Ireland’s tha nation / Which all other nations together excel.
at botheration!, excl.
[US] ‘Gathering of the Mahonys’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 14: A boy of the right kind of stuff / Who’d fight till the black blood came bubbling / Like buttermilk out of his buff!
at buff, n.1
[US] ‘Gathering of the Mahonys’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 15: We, like our fathers before us, / Are always the ‘cocks of the walk’.
at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
[US] ‘Mulvaney & O’Flanagan’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 55: May he and his whole dirty band / Be choked when they next drink the ‘cratur!’.
at creature, the, n.
[US] ‘Mulvaney and O’Flanagan’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 54: And if England should dare interfere, / Ould Ireland will have a chance again [...] Then, when the old dart is free, / Annex’ion to America we’ll plan again. [Ibid.] ‘Paddy Burke’ 65: Here I am, Paddy Burke, a true Irish Turk – / My fortune to mend, I’ve left the ould dart.
at Old Dart, n.
[US] ‘Rafferty’s Party’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 50: By the powers of Moll Kelly, ’twas rare fun.
at by the powers of Moll Doyle! (excl.) under Moll Doyle, n.
[US] ‘Mulvaney & O’Flanagan’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 54: Wouldn’t I make a football of his cranium? / Out of his black skin I’d knock blazes.
at knock (the) hell of out (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] ‘Rafferty’s Party’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 51: Upon the table was laid a grand supper – / Real Irish turkey, caught in the sea; / Corned beef and cabbage, skellians and butter.
at Irish turkey (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] ‘Paddy’s Rambles’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 13: I don’t want your quarters, my jewel.
at jewel, n.
[US] ‘Paddy’s Chapter on Pockets’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 26: With pocket in hand, and the mopusses in it.
at mopus, n.
[US] ‘The Old Bog-Hole’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 15: My Judy she’s as fair as the flowers on the lea – / She’s nate and complate from the neck to the knee.
at neat, adj.
[US] ‘Paddy’s Chapter on Pockets’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 26: Tit for tat, English girls, the Pats all adore you.
at Pat, n.
[US] ‘Bet Carey’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 40: And whoe’er gets a blow / From Bet’s fleshy paw, / Will die by the hand of Bet Carey!
at paw, n.
[US] ‘Parody on When This Cruel War Is Over’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 10: Call me fond names darling – call me a ‘beat’ [...] whose fingers so nimble / To shuffle the cards or ‘rig the thimble.’.
at thimble-rig, n.
[US] ‘Paddy Burke’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 66: May the Peter Funks rope ’em, / And John Anderson smoke ’em.
at rope, v.
[US] ‘Paddy Burke’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 66: May the Peter Funks rope ’em, / And John Anderson smoke ’em.
at smoke, v.1
[US] ‘Kate Mooney’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 49: Wasn’t I a spooney, / Och hone! to grunt and groan, / And all for Katty Mooney.
at spoony, n.
[US] ‘Rafferty’s Party’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 51: Stirabout with new milk and whey.
at stir-about (n.) under stir, v.
[US] ‘Rafferty’s Party’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 51: Blood and thunder and turf!
at thunder and turf! (excl.) under thunder!, excl.
[US] ‘Paddy Carey’s Fortune’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 46: Nate little, tight little Paddy Carey!
at tight, adj.
[US] ‘Paddy McShane’s Seven Ages’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 35: A great, big, whacking chairman of Ballyporeen!
at whacking, adj.
[US] ‘Rafferty’s Party’ Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 51: ‘Hold yer whist!’ says Boyle.
at hold one’s whisht (v.) under whisht!, excl.
[US] ‘Miss Bailey’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 61: I’ve got an X greenback.
at X, n.2
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