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[UK] ‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ Flash Chaunter 5: Her father, he was lag’d for life, / An out-and-out Highwayman.
at out-and-out, adj.
[UK] ‘O, Saw You My Ass When ‘Twas Out On The Green’ Flash Chaunter 13: That you may know my ass when you do it spy, / I’d have you know, it has got but one eye! / It has a long mane just like a jew’s beard, / And like many more asses, my ass is lop-ear’d.
at ass, n.
[UK] ‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ in Flash Chaunter 5: Her mother she’s a lushington, / And stone blind drunk all day man.
at blind drunk (adj.) under blind, adv.1
[UK] ‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ in Flash Chaunter 5: But blow me if I care a d--n.
at blow me!, excl.2
[UK] ‘My Grandmother’s Ghost’ Flash Chaunter 7: A favourite comic song, sung at the Cock and Hen Clubs, with great applause.
at cock-and-hen club (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] ‘A Game At Push Pin’ Flash Chaunter 21: Then Mr. Shove, / Said oh, Miss Love, / No longer can I play; / You’ve beat me quite, / So love, good night! / I’ll come another day.
at come, v.1
[UK] ‘A Game At Push Pin’ in Flash Chaunter 20: Then said Shove, / To fair Miss Love, / If you do come it so, / I plainly see, / All’s up with me.
at come it, v.1
[UK] ‘The Shickster To Her Dab Had Gone’ in Flash Chaunter 15: Your Crabshells do not stand to tie, / Your Tile too never mind.
at crab-shells (n.) under crab, n.1
[UK] ‘An Out-And-Out Riddle’ Flash Chaunter 42: It’s known by so many names, and made such a hack, / And lately it’s been called, they say, the funny Magic Crack!
at crack, n.3
[UK] ‘Her Ladyship’s Daisey’ in Flash Chaunter 33: Said John, I though my lady’s daisey, / You would not wish folks for to see.
at daisy, n.
[UK] ‘The Tinder-Box’ Flash Chaunter 4: It was so deuced hard to open her tinder-box.
at deuced, adv.
[UK] in Flash Chaunter 27: [song title] Dip, The Tallow Chandler.
at dip, n.1
[UK] ‘The Old Maid And Her Monkey’ in Flash Chaunter 11: Among the rest, a Monkey she call’d Pan, / Who was, forsooth, this lady’s fancy man.
at fancy man, n.1
[UK] ‘The Shickster To Her Dab Had Gone’ Flash Chaunter 14: His Ticker she took care to bone, / His Fogle too, d’ye see? [...] With the bawd she fenc’d them both, / Who has stow’d them away.
at fence, v.
[UK] ‘The Tinder-Box’ Flash Chaunter 3: Said Roger unto Jane [...] Come, let me strike a light in your tinder-box. / Dear Roger, said the maid, my tinder-box is new, / It never has been open’d, but I cannot refuse you.
at firelock (n.) under fire, n.
[UK] ‘The Slap-Up Blowing’ in Flash Chaunter 25: At all the gaffs she is well known, / The smartest girl upon the town, / Her lowest price is half-a-crown.
at gaff, n.1
[UK] ‘The Grand Turk In Constantinople’ Flash Chaunter 20: ’Twas when an old Rogue, a fair damsel did grople, / And The Grand Turk was entering Constantinople.
at grope, v.
[UK] ‘An Out-And-Out Riddle’ in Flash Chaunter 42: It’s known by so many names, and made such a hack, / And lately it’s been called, they say, the funny Magic Crack!
at hack, n.2
[UK] ‘When A Girl’s About Sixteen’ Flash Chaunter 7: When once she’s had it she is worse, / Never pleasing, always teasing.
at it, n.1
[UK] ‘Her Ladyship’s Daisey’ in Flash Chaunter 32: Where pathways do abound in styles / These are the naughty things ’efegs, / That often do display the ladies legs.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] ‘Parody on Love’s Ritornella’ Flash Chaunter 44: Your Jack you have slip’d / (Of time) in the nick.
at jack, n.3
[UK] ‘The Hoars Of Fleet Street’ in Flash Chaunter 38: Then my sister she came up to me, / And driven by a Jarvis.
at jarvey, n.
[UK] ‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ in Flash Chaunter 6: I’ll hasten to her snoozing ken, / Along with my flash Sally, / And on her bed, I’ll lay my head.
at snoozing ken, n.
[UK] ‘The Shickster To Her Dab Had Gone’ in Flash Chaunter 14: The Lobsters they do prowl about, / As soon as it is day.
at lobster, n.1
[UK] ‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ in Flash Chaunter 5: Her mother she’s a lushington, / And stone blind drunk all day man.
at Lushington, n.
[UK] ‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ Flash Chaunter 5: Her mother she’s a lushington, / And stone blind drunk all day man.
at man, n.
[UK] ‘The Old Maid & Her Monkey’ Flash Chaunter 11: And tho’ resembling his brother Apes, [...] Was not unlike the Monkies of the day, / Who with Cigars do whiff their cares away.
at monkey, n.
[UK] ‘The Mouse Trap’ Flash Chaunter 30: One mouse at a time is sufficient for me.
at mouse, n.
[UK] ‘The Mouse Trap’ in Flash Chaunter 30: You must know my mouse trap is not made of wire, / Like some that has got little holes – two or three; / No more than one does my mouse trap require.
at mousetrap, n.
[UK] ‘Mutton Fresh’ Flash Chaunter 29: Mutton fresh, mutton fresh, still I cry, / Come and taste it off the thigh; / If you like Scotch fashion, you / Can have the hair upon it too, / For when my mutton is undress’d, / My customers like it best.
at mutton, n.
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