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The Jolly Old Boys Comic Song Book choose

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[Scot] Old Song in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads IV (1897) 247: Go home, ye Fop [...] And for half a Crown a Doxey get, But seek no more a partridge here .
at partridge, n.
[Scot] Old Song in N&Q Ser. 7 IX 97: Although a rummy codger, Now list to what I say.
at rummy, adj.1
[Scot] ‘My Wife She Wasn’t The Ticket ’ Jolly Old Boys Comic Song Book 335: [song title].
at not the ticket (adj.) under ticket, n.1
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