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The Laughing Songster choose

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[Scot] ‘Dicky Short’s History’ in Laughing Songster 57: He hung himself up to a tree in the meadow, / He felt all over he couldn’t tell how.
at all over, adj.1
[Scot] ‘Bubble, Squeak and Pettitoes’ Laughing Songster 47: Some nice bubble and squeak, / For he loved that as well as she loved pettitoes.
at bubble and squeak, n.1
[Scot] ‘Andro & his Cutty Gun’ Laughing Songster 14: But, cunning carline that she was, / She gart me birle my bawbie.
at baubee, n.
[Scot] ‘Poor Little Joe’ Laughing Songster 30: I’ve gotten my eyes about me, and I knows how many beans make five.
at know how many (blue) beans make five (v.) under beans, n.3
[Scot] ‘Janet Baird’ Laughing Songster 130: They’ve wedded an’ bedded.
at bed, v.
[Scot] ‘Larry Cafooslem’ in Laughing Songster 159: My coat was a bit of blue, / And a ‘Benjamin’ smart beside.
at benjamin, n.1
[Scot] ‘Tam Gibb & the Sow’ Laughing Songster 147: Odd, she was the most positive b---h o’ a sow that ever was born.
at bitch, n.1
[Scot] ‘Larry Cafooslem’ Laughing Songster 160: Blow me tight, / I began to talk away.
at blow me tight!, excl.
[Scot] ‘Wasn’t It Very Polite of Her?’ in Laughing Songster 154: Two lanky blue devils did collar me.
at blue devil, n.1
[Scot] ‘Town Bellman and Crier’ in Laughing Songster 95: Bodderation, man there’s it: and didn’t I tould you that she had lost her leg?
at botheration!, excl.
[Scot] ‘Gentleman of the Army’ Laughing Songster 155: The roaring boys, who made a noise, / And thwack’d me like the devil.
at roaring boy, n.
[Scot] ‘Comical Incidents’ in Laughing Songster 62: As Betty Crump had ta’en the cag / I think the sex all flam.
at cag, n.
[Scot] ‘Mister Barney’ in Laughing Songster 127: Och! Mister Barney, / None of your carney.
at carney, n.1
[Scot] ‘I Never Says Nothing to Nobody’ in Laughing Songster 149: In short, quite a cat and dog life.
at cat and dog life (n.) under cat, n.1
[Scot] ‘Come & Take Tea in the Arbour’ Laughing Songster 7: From above, a black spider swung bibbity bob / In my chops, as I sat in the arbour.
at chops, n.1
[Scot] ‘The New London Cries’ in Laughing Songster 109: The chummy so black, sir, with bag on his back.
at chummy, n.2
[Scot] ‘Town Bellman and Crier’ Laughing Songster 91: I’m nicked ‘the town bore,’ with the ring in his nose, / By each envious cit and suburber.
at cit, n.
[Scot] ‘The Fashionable Coaley’ Laughing Songster 101: For when the coal is given you, / Give all old pals the sack, sirs.
at cole, n.
[Scot] ‘Poor Little Joe’ Laughing Songster 31: I’ll be off in a crack.
at in a crack under crack, n.1
[Scot] ‘Sally Gray’ in Laughing Songster 124: I ca’d to sup cruds wi’ Dick Miller.
at crud, n.
[Scot] in Laughing Songster 14: [song title] Andro and his Cutty Gun.
at cutty gun, n.
[Scot] ‘Poor Little Joe’ in Laughing Songster 32: Dickens and daisies! Somebody had put on my leather breeches and left me nought.
at dicken!, excl.
[Scot] ‘The New London Cries’ in Laughing Songster 109: Then Dusty and Crusty with voices so lusty.
at dusty, n.1
[Scot] ‘Mister Barney’ in Laughing Songster 127: You’ve been with the girls, / Your muffin face tells [...] You’ve been with the girls, / Your baby-face tells.
at muffin-face, n.
[Scot] ‘The Fashionable Coaley’ in Laughing Songster 99: My fantail-beaver I threw off.
at fantail, n.1
[Scot] ‘Comical Incidents’ Laughing Songster 62: As Betty Crump had ta’en the cag, / I think the sex all flam.
at flam, n.1
[Scot] ‘Bound ’Prentice to a Waterman’ Laughing Songster 121: Board a man of war I enter’d next, and larn’d to quaff good flip.
at flip, n.1
[Scot] ‘Larry Cafooslem’ in Laughing Songster 159: Round my neck a fogle yellow.
at fogle, n.
[Scot] ‘Bound ’Prentice to a Waterman’ in Laughing Songster 122: My pretty little frigate, how glad I be’s to find you here.
at frigate, n.
[Scot] ‘The Humours of a Country Fair’ in Laughing Songster 174: The last new pantomime [...] called Harlequin in a Funk, or, the Magic Sheep’s Head!
at funk, n.2
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