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[US] ‘His Nose Sticks Out a Feet’ Jolly Comic Songster 218: Now when I wur but ten years old, I wasn’t worth a darn.
at not worth a damn, phr.
[US] ‘London Vocalists’ Jolly Comic Songster 237: Here’s Brittania rules the wave – but that ’ere’s All in my eye, sirs.
at all my eye, phr.
[US] ‘London Vocalists’ in Jolly Comic Songster 237: Dame Durden had five serving maids, with The long tail’d blue, sirs.
at long-tail blue, n.
[US] ‘Tall Young Oysterman’ Jolly Comic Songster 206: Then he popp’d into the waves, kick’d the bucket, and died.
at kick the bucket, v.
[US] ‘Taking Tea in the Arbor’ in Jolly Comic Songster 210: For the smell of a garden, I care not a farden.
at farden, n.
[US] ‘A Batch of Cakes’ Jolly Comic Songster 238: Dandy lads, with stays and pads, / Dressed out like simple tonies, / Cannot be reckoned cakes at all, / They’re only maccaronies.
at macaroni, n.1
[US] ‘Billy Vite’ Jolly Comic Songster 192: He was [...] noted for a natty blade.
at natty, adj.
[US] ‘My Daddy Warn’t Particular’ Jolly Comic Songster 200: With these I’d make a shift to live, nor think of care or pelf.
at pelf, n.
[US] ‘Billy Vite’ in Jolly Comic Songster 192: She fell stiff stone dead underneath the table.
at stiff, adv.
[US] ‘Ethiopian Comic Medley’ Jolly Comic Songster 232: Way down in Alabama, not very long ago, / I knew a yellow charmer.
at yellow, adj.
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