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[UK] Casket June 77: Out squealed Cousin Betty Deakins [...] O the wonderation, what a nation sight of jiggermarees!
at jigamaree, n.
[UK] Casket (Phila., PA) Apr. 182/2: ‘Ah, John, how do you do?’ said a said a liveried servant to a brother bone-polisher, in Pall Mall.
at bone-polisher (n.) under bone, n.1
[UK] Casket (Phila., PA) Jan. 41/1: By jings! that beats me, I tell ye.
at beat, v.
[UK] ‘Peas, Beans, And Cabbage!’ Flash Casket 98: Bet swore, ‘Damn her, she cared not a louse!’.
at not care a louse, v.
[UK] in Flash Casket 94: [song title] The Accommodating Abbess.
at accommodate, v.1
[UK] ‘Nanny, The Frisky’ in Flash Casket 75: Toast—The blanket hornpipe.
at blanket hornpipe (n.) under blanket, n.
[UK] ‘Moll Blowse of Saffron Hill’ Flash Casket 98: Togg’ry decked each blowing’s hide, / Of furbelow and frill.
at blowing, n.1
[UK] in Flash Casket 97: [song title] Moll Blowse of Saffron Hill.
at blowse, n.
[UK] ‘Jack of Horslydown’ in Flash Casket 59: She’s o’er the water and brush’d off / Vith Jack o Horslydown.
at brush, v.1
[UK] ‘Charley The Buzzman & Mot!’ Flash Casket 67: Where are you paddling on tip toe light, / An old Bulk ax’d, a mot one night; / Nosing for gulpins, who want a bed, / Charley said she I am hither led.
at bulk, n.1
[UK] in Flash Casket 67: [song title] Charley The Buzzman and Mot!
at buzman (n.) under buz, n.
[UK] ‘The Vocal Chimbly Sweepery’ in Flash Casket 81: I’m called sooty Dick by the wulgar about, / I’m a chummy vot lives near saint Gilesis.
at chummy, n.2
[UK] ‘Two Game Cocks’ Flash Casket 79: Says the ould Game Cock to the young Game Cock, / Don’t tip us none of that stuff [...] Vone cock to one valk is enough.
at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] ‘Let Shame Crown the Strumpet’ Flash Casket 56: Spoonies may squander their cole.
at cole, n.
[UK] ‘Jack of Horslydown’ Flash Casket 58: Now let this dishclout grief be done, / That konk a fogle vants.
at conk, n.1
[UK] ‘Moll Blowse of Saffron Hill’ in Flash Casket 98: Vhen pigmen grabb’d me for a crack, / And sent me to the Mill, / Von voman broght me scran and shag, / ’Tvos Moll Blowse of Saffron Hill.
at crack, n.4
[UK] ‘Jack of Horslydown’ in Flash Casket 59: And you top sawyer ’mongst the fags, / Shall ride about the town.
at fag, n.1
[UK] ‘The Maid of Hungerford, And Dan the Bottle-Washer’ in Flash Casket 88: Sing hey, sing oh, how the folks did grig her, / For every day this Maid grew bigger.
at greg, v.
[UK] ‘Charley The Buzzman and Mot!’ in Flash Casket 67: Where are you paddling on tip toe light, / An old Bulk ax’d, a mot one night; / Nosing for gulpins, who want a bed, / Charley said she I am hither led.
at gulpin, n.
[UK] ‘Moll Blowse of Saffron Hill’ in Flash Casket 98: And vhen the gallows gum I cotch’d, / And no more could stand, / She physic’d me vith pills and vash.
at gum, n.1
[UK] ‘Nanny, The Frisky’ Flash Casket 75: The jack mots of Wapping, might any work do, / And are rummy when they have a mind. / But the hairiest of lasses, / What all these surpasses, / Is Nanny, the frisky young whore!
at hairy, adj.1
[UK] ‘The Whorish Jade’ in Flash Casket 58: She soon had hocussed the old cove’s eyes, / With some laudanam put in his beer; / Then grabbed all the blunt from his kicksies’ clies.
at hocus, v.
[UK] ‘Nanny, The Frisky’ in Flash Casket 75: The blowens of Holborn, can’t grind, / The jack mots of Wapping, might any work do.
at jack-whore (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] ‘Let Shame Crown the Strumpet’ in Flash Casket 56: The measures of gatter let lushers display.
at lusher, n.
[UK] ‘Jack of Horslydown’ in Flash Casket 59: His moke is first at Billingsgate, / His cly ne’er vants a crown.
at moke, n.1
[UK] ‘There’s Nothing Like Pride About Me’ in Flash Casket 65: Vhile guving Lord Hoppy a call, / My vife’s monkey rose d’y see, / ’Cos I eat pickled eels at a stall, / For there’s nothing like pride about me.
at monkey, n.
[UK] ‘Charley The Buzzman and Mot!’ in Flash Casket 67: It’s gallows well known by every cove, / You goes in the fields, when you have a move.
at move, n.
[UK] ‘Moll Blowse of Saffron Hill’ in Flash Casket 98: A deal the neatest goer there, / Vos Moll Blowse of Saffron Hill.
at neat, adj.
[UK] ‘The Chap Who The Ball Cocks Hangs’ in Flash Casket 93: We walk when pale Oliver’s hid.
at oliver, n.
[UK] ‘Those Doctor’s Pills!’ Flash Casket 76: They’ve torn the teeth from out of my gills, / And my poor tripes have paid!
at pay, v.
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