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Fun Alive O! A Capital Collection of Flash, Slang, Comic and Queer Songs choose

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[UK] ‘Coalheavers’ Feast’ Fun Alive O! 60: Six pounds of backey, by way of a joke, / And twenty short pipes for the ladies to smoke.
at bacca, n.
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ Fun Alive O! 55: Next morning before the old beak, / We went and I thought he’d have pitied us.
at beak, n.1
[UK] ‘Chummies’ Societys Feast’ in Fun Alive O! 54: D’ye hear, have a jolly blow out, / To make up for tomorrow and yesterday.
at blow-out, n.1
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ in Fun Alive O! 55: A pair of blue devils came in / And hiked us both to the roundakin.
at blue devil, n.1
[UK] ‘Ar’nt This Rummy Fun?’ in Fun Alive O! 62: For I will prove as you shall larn, I’m no cag-mag consarn!
at cagmag, adj.
[UK] ‘Coalheaver’s Feast’ in Fun Alive O! 58: Laughing and joking / Chaffing and smoking.
at chaff, v.
[UK] ‘London, at Twelve at Night’ Fun Alive O! 24: Sober Cits are homeward hieing – noisy bucks in revels vieing.
at cit, n.
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ Fun Alive O! 54: I dined with the rest of the dons, / Vot belongs to the Chummies Society.
at don, n.
[UK] ‘Chapter of Wants’ in Fun Alive O! 35: The world, ecod, are all in want.
at ecod!, excl.
[UK] ‘The Coalheaver’s Feast’ in Fun Alive O! 59: And half of St Giles came down in a troop, / To wolf up the gatter, the bacon, and soup.
at gatter, n.
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ in Fun Alive O! 53: I’m a Master Sweep, you must all know, / With plenty of cash in my gropuses.
at gropus, n.
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ in Fun Alive O! 54: They grubb’d well at all they could get.
at grub, v.1
[UK] ‘Ar’nt This Rummy Fun?’ in Fun Alive O! 63: You shall not sit at home by gum, / All day idle on your ...
at by gum! (excl.) under gum, n.2
[UK] ‘Coalheaver’s Feast’ Fun Alive O! 61: Out of tea kettles then they guzzled the gin.
at guzzle, v.1
[UK] ‘Ar’nt This Rummy Fun?’ in Fun Alive O! 63: You’ll have to mind the kids, by jinks!
at by jinks! (excl.) under jinks, n.
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ in Fun Alive O! 55: A pair of blue devils came in / And hiked us both to the roundakin.
at roundy-ken, n.
[UK] ‘London, at Twelve at Night’ in Fun Alive O! 26: Then they stagger through the streets, ripe and ready for a lark.
at lark, n.2
[UK] ‘Modest Obadiah’ in Fun Alive O! 52: Then surely love must blunder, / Because the Bible says ’tis good / In the milky way to wander.
at milky way (to bliss) (n.) under milky, adj.1
[UK] ‘The Coalheaver’s Feast’ Fun Alive O! 61: Pulling and tearing, / Tugging and swearing, / Milling away at the Coalheaver’s feast.
at mill, v.1
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ in Fun Alive O! 53: And I thinks them ’ere chaps very low / What goes cadging about for the mopusses.
at mopus, n.
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ in Fun Alive O! 54: I made his fizhog for to sound again / When a pair of blue devils came in.
at phiz, n.1
[UK] ‘The Coalheaver’s Feast’ Fun Alive O! 59: Forty polonies and twelve saveloys, / a sack of potatoes and twenty savoys.
at polony, n.1
[UK] ‘Remarkable Occurrences’ in Fun Alive O! 31: Neddy Nimble turned a prig, / And got transported for his pains.
at prig, n.1
[UK] ‘Ar’nt This Rummy Fun?’ in Fun Alive O! 62: I’d have you know, you snivelling pup, / I am a gal vot’s vell brought up.
at pup, n.
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ Fun Alive O! 54: I rigged my two ’prentices out.
at rig, v.1
[UK] ‘The Chummies’ Society’ in Fun Alive O! 56: I think I got nicely sarv’d out, / By joining the Chummies Society.
at serve out (v.) under serve, v.
[UK] ‘The Coalheaver’s Feast’ Fun Alive O! 59: Dancing and tearing / Prancing and swearing.
at tear, v.
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