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[UK] ‘The Rakish Gentleman’ in Knowing Chaunter 44: There’s Mrs. Brown, the doctor’s wife, She’s frisky, round, and plump, / So I call on her for my breakfast bit – / Oh, she’s such a crummy lump.
at bit, n.1
[UK] ‘Peas, Beans, & Cabbages’ Knowing Chaunter 10: But since the young bitch / Has won the first heat, / I’ll challenge her out to f--t.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] ‘The Spring Bedstead’ in Knowing Chaunter 18: And the blowen so alert, / Had nibbled all my money.
at blowen, n.
[UK] ‘The Spring Bedstead’ in Knowing Chaunter 17: I lately came to town, / In very decent trimming, / And thought to do it brown, / Among the fancy women.
at do it brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
[UK] ‘The Frolicsome Methodist Parson’ in Knowing Chaunter 39: With toying he made her quite mute, / His vows lasted ten months, or nearly, / Till Miss Green found it was a BROWN suit, / And saw she was done very clearly.
at brown, adj.1
[UK] ‘William’s Dew-Drop’ in Knowing Chaunter 47: On what a fine thick stem it blows, / And oh, what furze around it grows.
at furze-bush, n.
[UK] ‘My Shickster Molly’ in Knowing Chaunter 43: I care not for pals tho’ they call me C. P., / ’Cause my shickster Molly goes tailing for me.
at c.p., n.
[UK] ‘Frisky Poll Of Broker’s Alley’ Knowing Chaunter 19: Squinting Poll of Broker’s-alley, / Got quite nutty vith the cove, [...] Poll swore that he was quite the kick.
at cove, n.
[UK] ‘The Randy Young Maid’ Knowing Chaunter 33: He jump’d into bed in a crack.
at in a crack under crack, n.1
[UK] ‘The Rakish Gentleman’ in Knowing Chaunter 44: There’s Mrs. Brown, the doctor’s wife, She’s frisky, round, and plump, / So I call on her for my breakfast bit – / Oh, she’s such a crummy lump.
at crummy, adj.1
[UK] ‘Frisky Poll Of Broker’s Alley’ in Knowing Chaunter 20: She’d done the cove upon the tally; / She’d nail’d the simple kiddy’s blunt, / And he had nicks in Broker’s-alley.
at do, v.1
[UK] ‘The Lady’s Front’ Knowing Chaunter 6: Why, Jenny, by Jingo, betwixt your two thighs, / Egad I have found your long lost hairy front!
at egad!, excl.
[UK] ‘The Spring Bedstead’ in Knowing Chaunter 17: I lately came to town, / In very decent trimming, / And thought to do it brown, / Among the fancy women.
at fancy woman, n.
[UK] ‘Luscious Fifteen’ Knowing Chaunter 40: So one day she inspected the sweet little part, / Where she found some soft hair had begun there to sprout, / Which tickled her sweet little Fanny about.
at fanny, n.1
[UK] ‘Peas, Beans, & Cabbages’ Knowing Chaunter 10: But since the young bitch / Has won the first heat, / I’ll challenge her out to f--t.
at fart, v.
[UK] ‘My Shickster Molly’ in Knowing Chaunter 43: There’s Joe, the flue-faker, vith scorn passes by.
at flue-faker (n.) under flue, n.1
[UK] ‘The Spring Bedstead’ in Knowing Chaunter 18: I think I’d cause to rue, / The fun I had requested, / For, besides, I got the glue.
at glue, n.
[UK] ‘A Hellebello In The Workhouse’ in Knowing Chaunter 24: Black Sarah, ’tis said, they their general made, / For to mill – she was naught but a good-un.
at good ’un, n.
[UK] ‘Lady’s Front’ Knowing Chaunter 6: Why, Jenny, by Jingo, betwixt your two thighs, / Egad I have found your long lost hairy front!
at jingo!, excl.
[UK] ‘A Hellebello In The Workhouse’ in Knowing Chaunter 26: For in nine months more, each a young kinchin bore.
at kinchin, n.
[UK] ‘The Transport’s Complaint’ in Knowing Chaunter 36: I’m nail’d sure enough by the beaks and the law.
at law, n.
[UK] ‘The Spring Bedstead’ in Knowing Chaunter 17: So, says my leary mot, / I’ll go and have a flare-up! / So to a crib we sped, / To do as she requested.
at leery, adj.
[UK] ‘The Lady’s Front’ in Knowing Chaunter 10: My wife let off – ’twas not the thing, / While the maid, loud as thunder, / Split her latter-end asunder, / in F--ting ‘God save the King’.
at let off (v.) under let, v.
[UK] ‘Transport’s Complaint’ in Knowing Chaunter 37: Never again – no never – not never, / Shall we get gallows lushy, or slumber together.
at lushy, adj.1
[UK] ‘The Rakish Gentleman’ Knowing Chaunter 44: I’m called the randy gentleman, [...] I’m a standing member of the house, / And the ladies all so free, Declare they like no member, sires, / Upon the w-hole like me.
at member, n.1
[UK] ‘The Spring Bedstead’ in Knowing Chaunter 17: So, says my leary mot, / I’ll go and have a flare-up! / So to a crib we sped, / To do as she requested.
at mot, n.
[UK] ‘The Rakish Gentleman’ in Knowing Chaunter 44: It costs me full two pound a month / For inexpressibles; / Because my nature wears them out / While looking at the belles.
at nature, n.
[UK] ‘The Spring Bedstead’ Knowing Chaunter 18: And the blowen so alert, / Had nibbled all my money.
at nibble, v.
[UK] ‘Frisky Poll Of Broker’s Alley’ in Knowing Chaunter 20: She’d done the cove upon the tally; / She’d nail’d the simple kiddy’s blunt, / And he had nicks in Broker’s-alley.
at nix, n.
[UK] ‘Awning’ Knowing Chaunter 13: She said she was sorely afraid / That Paddy, her love, wouldn’t meet her.
at Paddy, n.
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