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‘A Twiggle & a Friz’ Garland of New Songs 8: There’s the painted doll, and the powder’d fop, / With many a block that wears a wig.at block, n.1
‘A Twiggle & a Friz’ Garland of New Songs 8: There’s the painted doll, and the powder’d fop, / With many a block that wears a wig. ‘A Twiggle & a Friz’ Garland of New Songs 8: There’s the painted doll, and the powder’d fop.at doll, n.1
‘A Bit of the Brown’ Garland of New Songs (6) 7: I’ll no more bones be picking, / I will have a bit of brown, / Or Ma’am she knaps a kicking.at bit of (a), n.
‘Johnny’s Grey Breeks’ Garland of New Songs 7: His coat is worn, his breeks is tore, / He’s scarce enough to cover his gear; [...] His breeks fell down, I cry’d safe [?] loon, / And with his gear he won my heart.at gear, n.
‘The New Way of Maggie Lauder’ Garland of New Songs
3: [as cit. c.1642].at hallan shaker, n.
‘The Spendthrift cast in Limbo’ in A Garland of New Songs (22) 5: They will be the first that will clap you in jail, / Take care that you keep out of Limbo.at limbo, n.
‘Sally in our Alley’ A Garland of New Songs 5: My master comes, like any Turk, / And bangs me most severely: / But let him bang his belly full, / I’ll bear it all for Sally.at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
‘Jack at the Windlass’ Garland of New Songs 6: When he took on his knee Betty Bowser, / And he talk’d of her beauty and charms, / Cried I, ‘which is the way to heaven now, sir,’ / ‘Why you dog,’ says the Chaplain, ‘her arms’.at bowser, n.1
‘Poor Jack’ Garland of New Songs 2: The Danes and Spaniards too, / Went tumbling to old Davy.at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
‘Poll and my Partner Joe’ in A Garland of New Songs (10) 2: My grunter in the sty.at grunter, n.
‘Moll In The Wood’ Garland of New Songs 2: Moll of the wood lives alone, / She keeps a sporting house of her own, / And every man that doth pass by, / She tips them in with a rolling eye. [...] Moll of the wood she lives alone, / She keeps a bawdy house of her own.at sporting house (n.) under sporting, adj.
‘Mister Grig and Miss Snap’ A Garland of New Songs (13) 6: What a set of woes! / For the house-dog, in the freak, / Bon’d the bubble and the squeak, / And pussy ran away with the pettitoes.at bubble and squeak, n.1
‘Come under my Plaidy’ Garland of New Songs (32) 6: A bien house to bide in.at bene, adj.
‘Dick Dock’ in A Garland of New Songs (60) 5: Dick Dock a tar, at Greenwich moor’d, / One day had got his beer on board.at on board (adv.) under board, n.1
‘Mister Grig and Miss Snap’ in A Garland of New Songs (13) 6: What a set of woes! / For the house-dog, in the freak, / Bon’d the bubble and the squeak, / And pussy ran away with the pettitoes.at bone, v.1
‘Dick Dock’ in A Garland of New Songs (60) 5: For he like Dick had got his dose.at dose, n.1
‘Paddy Carey’ in A Garland of New Songs (3) 3: While Pat was coaxing duck-legg’d Mary.at duck legs (n.) under duck, n.1
‘The Quay-side Shaver’ Garland of New Songs (1) 2: Join’d in with Tom Hoggarts and little Bob Nackers, / Who wander the streets in their fuddling gills.at fuddled, adj.
‘Nothing like Grog’ in A Garland of New Songs (56) 3: A cann of good stuff, had they twigg’d it, / Would have set them for pleasure agog.at good stuff (n.) under good, adj.1
‘Dick Dock’ Garland of New Songs (60) 5: When he a poor maim’d pensioner from Chelsea saw; [...] Cries how good master lobster did you lose your claw?at lobster, n.1
‘Paddys Wedding’ in A Garland of New Songs (5) 3: Now a roaring set, / To dinner are met [...] With murphies galore.at murphy, n.1
‘Paddy Carey’ in A Garland of New Songs (3) 2: O sweet Paddy! beautiful Paddy! / Nate little, tight little Paddy Carey.at neat, adj.
‘The Quay-side Shaver’ in A Garland of New Songs (1) 3: For all they can say, Sir, she still rasps away, Sir, / And sweeps round the jaw the chop torturing tool; / Till they in a pet, Sir, request her to wet, Sir, / But she gives them for answer, ‘Sit still, you piss’d fool!’.at pissed, adj.1
‘The Quay-side Shaver’ in A Garland of New Songs (1) 2: Nay, nothing escapes, Sir, until Madame Scrape, Sir, / Cries, ‘Gentlemen, who is the next to sit down?’.at scrape, n.
‘The Quay-side Shaver’ A Garland of New Songs (1) 3: And as she scrapes round ’em, if by chance wound ’em, / They’ll cry out as tho’ she’d bereav’d them of life.at scrape, v.
‘The Flour Clubs’ Garland of New Songs 7: Some thousands of good yellow shiners.at shiner, n.1
‘Dick Dock’ in A Garland of New Songs (60) 5: Do you think it fun you swab.at swab, n.
‘Paddys Wedding’ Garland of New Songs (5) 3: To the bride’s good health went round the swipes.at swipes, n.
‘Dick Dock’ in A Garland of New Songs (60) 5: And then how you hobbling go / On that jury mast your timber toe.at timber-toe, n.
‘Thomas Clutterbuck & Polly Higginbottom’ Garland of New Songs (38) 4: In Chester town a man there dwelt, / Not as rich as Croesus, but a buck; / The pangs of Love he clearly felt— / His name was Thomas Clutterbuck.at buck, n.1
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