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[Ire] ‘Daniel M’Clean’s Guaging Instrument’ Songs (publ. Monaghan) 2: The new fashion’d instrument I’ve got for guaging [...] Where any young maiden that makes application, / To ease her vexation.
at instrument, n.
[Ire] ‘The Trump-Case’ Songs (publ. Monaghan) 3: He pull’d out his nutmegs and at her anvil knock’d.
at nutmegs, n.
[Ire] ‘Hush Cat from under the Table’ Songs (publ. Monaghan) 4: And ever since that she never cry’d stop, / But whacking the cat from under the table.
at whack, v.1
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 4: When one of us ax’d ‘could he die, / Widout having truly repented,’ / Says Larry ‘dat’s all in my eye’ / And first by de clergy invented.
at all my eye, phr.
[Ire] ‘The Irish Robber’s Adventure’ Irish Songster 3: My bloan she cries and tears her hair.
at blowen, n.
[Ire] ‘The Disappointed Maid’ Irish Songster 7: In naked buff, and patch quite rough, / I’d buckle to her in a trice.
at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
[Ire] ‘Answer to Darby O’Gallagher’ Songs (publ.?) 5: Then with a stout Blow, / Of two Stones Below, / He made her to Scream like a Cat in a Factory.
at cat, n.1
[Ire] ‘Pearlha Nhe Kilthee Bawne’ Irish Songster 2: The charmer whom I prize for beauty outvies, / Fair Helen or chaste Diana.
at charmer, n.
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 5: But soon I’d demolish your noddle. / And tip you your claret to drink.
at claret, n.
[Ire] ‘Hush Cat from under the Table’ Irish Songster 4: Hush cat come out in a crack, / Hush cat from under the table.
at in a crack under crack, n.1
[Ire] ‘Squire Raynold’s Downfall’ Irish Songster 4: The cruel intention of that blood-thirsty Crew.
at crew, n.
[Ire] ‘Whiskey Friskey’ in Songs n.p.: For a man when dead drunk is as great as a King.
at dead, adv.
[Ire] ‘Squire Raynold’s Downfall’ Irish Songster 4: But Robert Mc. Keon that blood thirsty dog, / Then shot thro’ his forehead a three corner slug.
at dog, n.2
[Ire] ‘The Turf’ Irish Songster 7: My earning I beg’d and likewise my bread, / My cloaths were not worth half a dollar.
at half-dollar, n.1
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 4: When a boy was condemned to the Squeezer, / Would pop all de duds dat he had, / To help his comrade to a Sneezer.
at duds, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Musical Piper’ Irish Songster 3: Your flutes out of order poor Mathew Malone.
at flute, n.1
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 4: When a boy was condemned to the Squeezer, / Would pop all de duds dat he had, / To help his comrade to a Sneezer, / And warm his gab ’fore he died.
at gab, n.1
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 4: When one of us ax’d ‘could he die, / Widout having truly repented,’ / Says Larry ‘dat’s all in my eye / And first by de clergy invented / To fatten dir gobs wid a bit’.
at gob, n.1
[Ire] ‘Larry’s Ghost’ Irish Songster 7: Says he, Larry wid all my heart, / I have no objection my honey.
at honey, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Coughing Old Man’ Irish Songster 3: What Maid can blame me, / To crown him with horns.
at horn, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Coughing Old Man’ Irish Songster 2: To him then I turn’d my back in a huff.
at huff, n.
[Ire] ‘Reilly’s Praise of his Lovely Molly’ Irish Songster 3: I count it a pleasure my jewel to ease you.
at jewel, n.
[Ire] ‘The Proker’ Songs (publ.?) 7: Bad look to you, you Bitch, and your dirty lousy Proker.
at lousy, adj.
[Ire] ‘The Irish Robber’s Adventure’ Irish Songster 3: As thro’ covent garden we stroled away, / With my fresh Madam going to the play.
at madam, n.
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 5: Oghone! it’s all over said he, / For de neck cloth I’ll be forc’d to put on, / And by dis time tomorrow you’ll see, / Your poor Larry as dead as mutton.
at dead as mutton (adj.) under mutton, n.
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 5: Den Larry found one of dem cheated. / A dart at his napper he med.
at napper, n.2
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Songs [publ. Monaghan] 5: Oghone! it’s all over said he, / For de neck cloth I’ll be forc’d to put on.
at neck cloth (n.) under neck, n.
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 5: But soon I’d demolish your noddle. / And tip you your claret to drink.
at noddle, n.
[Ire] ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 6: When he came to the nubbing chit, / He was tuck’d up so nate and so pritty.
at nubbing cheat (n.) under nubbing, n.
[Ire] ‘Poll of Plymouth’ Songs (publ.?) 8: We plough’d the deep, and now between, / Us lay the ocean wide.
at plough the deep (v.) under plough, v.
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