Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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‘Gloucestershire Bumpkin’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 18 138: There were men folk and women folk penned up together / (Like so many wethers or ewes at a fair,) / Besides a large booby hutch fit for holding, / The whole corporation, the justice and mayor.at booby-hutch, n.
‘Monmouth Street’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 19 148: You may get new ‘buckets’ for a bob!at bucket, n.
‘Monmouth Street’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 19 148: A slap-up coat for eighteen pence, / With dandy ‘cases’ and ‘tile’ so neat / They returned quite swells from Monmouth Street!at cases, n.
‘Ben Backstay the Boatswain’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 18 141: Our captain, who was a jolly dog, / One day he gave to every man a double share of grog.at jolly dog, n.
‘Ben Backstay the Boatswain’ Lover’s Harmony No. 18 141: Our captain, who was a jolly dog, / One day he gave to every man a double share of grog.at grog, n.1
‘Miseries of a Lord Mayor’ in Lover’s Harmony no. 18 140: Fishwomen lark it at Billingsgate market.at lark, v.
‘Monmouth Street’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 19 148: The lipeys that you meet there, / You’ll own their dealings very fair, / With gammon they’ll get you in a line, / ‘Py Got a’ Mightish dish is fine!’ / With that a coat on you they fix, / Just big enough to cover six, / Then cry ‘Py Got, it fitsh you neat, / ’Tis de greatesht pargain in Monmouth Street!’.at lipey, n.
‘Gloucestershire Bumpkin’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 18 138: Odd’s bobs and I thought it the maggot, [...] in turn such a baby as I / Might be soused in a trough like the sop in a pan.at maggot, n.
‘A Single Young Man Lodger’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 19 146: If I asked for a bob, / He’d give me such a podger.at podger, n.
‘Monmouth Street’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 19 148: For thrums you’ll get a new bandana, / And a bran new shaker for a tanner.at shaker, n.1
‘Monmouth Street’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 19 148: For thrums you’ll get a new bandana, / And a bran new shaker for a tanner.at thrums, n.
‘Gloucestershire Bumpkin’ Lover’s Harmony No. 18 138: Then up jumps a man into a tub [....] he turn’ up the whites of his eyes, / And for mercy upon us did heartily pray.at tub, n.1
‘Gloucestershire Bumpkin’ Lover’s Harmony No. 18 138: I thought it a shameful thing / For to serve the poor babe such a woundey trick.at woundy, adv.
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