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The Gentleman Steeple-Chaser choose

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[UK] ‘My Name Is Sam Dodger’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 38: [I] sported my flash girl [...] We both went a smashing, and did it up brown too, / And lots of bad silver we us’d for to pass.
at bad smash (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] ‘The Racehorse’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 6: Oh says the donkey hot and funky, / I’m beggared if I an’t off again.
at beggared, adj.
[UK] ‘My Wife She Often Pulls My Horns’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 43: She often tells me to my face / That I’m not worth a button.
at not worth a button (adj.) under button, n.1
[UK] ‘Put Up Your Muck!’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 27: Put up my muck – I’d have you know / I never do for cagmag go.
at cagmag, n.
[UK] ‘The Cockchafer!’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 25: My sweet cockchafer [...] She causes me to rise again / With her hand so lily so white.
at cockchafer, n.
[UK] ‘The Frisky Family’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 35: When she threw all the balls she prov’d ’em all cods.
at cod, n.2
[UK] ‘My Name Is Sam Dodger’ Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 38: [I] sported my flash girl [...] We both went a smashing, and did it up brown too, / And lots of bad silver we us’d for to pass.
at flash girl (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] ‘My Name Is Sam Dodger’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 38: My father before me, he was a sly codger / And first introduced me to my flash pals.
at flash cull (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] ‘A Bit Of Prize Mutton’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 40: My precious kite out, so nicely I will blow.
at blow out the kite (v.) under kite, n.
[UK] ‘The Frisky Family’ Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 36: The girl’s fond of jock, and lads fond of leather.
at leather, n.
[UK] ‘The Racehorse’ Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 4: What stuff is that your munchin? / Drink water too that stinks like p-ss.
at piss, n.
[UK] ‘My Wife She Often Pulls My Horns’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 40: She often tells me to my face / That I’m not worth a button / For I cannot fill her little place, / Though she knows I’m fond of mutton.
at place, the, n.
[UK] ‘They All Be Pokeing At Our House’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 37: The groom he is pokeing the mare every day, / And the butler he pokes our house keeper too they say.
at poke, v.
[UK] ‘My Name Is Sam Dodger’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 38: [I] sported my flash girl [...] We both went a smashing, and did it up brown too, / And lots of bad silver we us’d for to pass.
at smash, v.2
[UK] ‘The Frisky Family’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 36: The father [...] had done the trick, / For hundreds or more, with his long sugar stick.
at sugar-stick, n.
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