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The Lummy Chaunter choose

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[UK] ‘Sandman Joe’ Lummy Chaunter 82: Then away he went with his flaming lass, / To play the game you all know, / Whilst gallows Joe he wagged his a--e, / And roaring, &c.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘Poll Of Drury’ Lummy Chaunter 60: Arter that why then we’ll pop / In the nearest bawdy-ken, love.
at bawdy-ken (n.) under bawdy, adj.
[UK] ‘Poll Of Drury’ in Lummy Chaunter 60: No thought had I to be a bilk.
at bilk, n.
[UK] ‘Bob Dusty’ Lummy Chaunter 72: Six lushy old sweeps, some short and some tall, / Carried Bob in his box to the earth made for all.
at box, n.1
[UK] ‘Sandman Joe’ Lummy Chaunter 81: His brawny hand her bubbies prest.
at bubby, n.1
[UK] ‘’Tis A Bit Of A Thing’ in Lummy Chaunter 58: Now you see, that I sing, / With a bumper to woman! to season our wine.
at bumper, n.2
[UK] ‘Mary And The Frozen Limb’ in Lummy Chaunter 63: I jump’d into bed and began to embrace her, / And kissing and pressing her ivory charms.
at charms, n.
[UK] ‘Sam Booze’s Funeral’ in Lummy Chaunter 85: His chummies, who were numerous, / To celebrate his dying, / A supper held, so humorous.
at chum, n.
[UK] ‘Poll Of Drury’ in Lummy Chaunter 60: The old bawd soon gave her consent, / And to a crib we quickly went.
at crib, n.1
[UK] ‘Bob Dusty’ in Lummy Chaunter 73: You may all take your davy, the bucket I’ve kicked.
at davy, n.
[UK] ‘Firing Up The Chimney’ in Lummy Chaunter 79: One Jemmy Jumps had a pistol got [...] With his heighho! / Oh dear, what a go! / Crikey dickey!
at dicky, n.5
[UK] ‘The Stray Donkey’ in Lummy Chaunter 75: Till a dollop of blunt I have got, / Then another donkey I’ll buy.
at dollop, n.
[UK] ‘Sandman Joe’ in Lummy Chaunter 82: This night I’ll doss with my Joey.
at doss, v.
[UK] ‘A Favourite Parody’ in Lummy Chaunter 75: Perhaps like me, she’s glad to take / Whatever she can get, / But if she drinks till she is dry, / She always will be wet.
at dry, adj.2
[UK] ‘Chloe & Her Coral’ Lummy Chaunter 92: Her husband, to amuse his duck, / Gives her a pretty thing to suck, / ’Tis like,’tis like her coral!
at duck, n.1
[UK] ‘The Pugilistic Feats Of Jack Scroggins’ in Lummy Chaunter 57: The conqueror of Dutch Sam, then next he took in tow.
at Dutch, adj.2
[UK] ‘Job Halls & Mike Hunt’ Lummy Chaunter 83: In the Feathers you’d find him soaking with Mike Hunt.
at in the feathers under feather, n.
[UK] ‘Poor Dirty Bet’ in Lummy Chaunter 49: By her flash man she was turn’d up, / All her future sprees were furl’d up.
at flashman, n.
[UK] ‘Firing Up The Chimney’ in Lummy Chaunter 80: Then Molly ask’d Jemmy his pistol to fire [...] Up her foul flue and bring down the mire.
at flue, n.1
[UK] ‘Firing Up The Chimney’ in Lummy Chaunter 79: Crikey! gemini!
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] ‘With My Cook So Fair’ in Lummy Chaunter 67: At the smell of her pudding, I sticks to her like a good ’un.
at good ’un, n.
[UK] ‘Milking The Bull’ Lummy Chaunter 91: Young Hodge came whist’ling with his team, / As he was going to plough; / When seeing me, he said, that I / Should have a fine green gown; / And so with that he towzled me / And tried to throw me down.
at get a green gown (v.) under green gown, n.
[UK] ‘Poor Dirty Bet’ Lummy Chaunter 49: In the gin shop you may find her, / Wishing that the times were kinder, / ’Cause she gets no one to grind her. Poor dirty Bet!
at grind, v.
[UK] ‘Sam Booze’s Funeral’ in Lummy Chaunter 85: His chummies, who were numerous, / To celebrate his dying, / A supper held, so humorous, / And mix’d their grog with crying.
at grog, n.1
[UK] ‘The Pugilistic Feats Of Jack Scroggins’ in Lummy Chaunter 58: Jack lately on a cruise got in a groggy plight.
at groggy, adj.
[UK] ‘Poor Dirty Bet’ Lummy Chaunter 49: Drinking gin her guts were burnt up.
at gut, n.
[UK] ‘The Pugilistic Feats Of Jack Scroggins’ in Lummy Chaunter 52: He hammer’d next the smith, saying, ‘you will repent your folly’.
at hammer, v.1
[UK] ‘A Favourite Parody’ Lummy Chaunter 74: But after that she’d get so drunk, / With gin and heavy wet.
at heavy wet, n.
[UK] ‘Poor Dirty Bet’ Lummy Chaunter 49: All her clothes were rent in twain, Poor dirty Bet! That you might see the whole quite plain, Poor dirty Bet!
at hole, n.1
[UK] ‘Peggy’s Triumph’ in Lummy Chaunter 88: The French Horns to gain Peggy, plaudits tried next, / But she, through their bungling performance much vex’d, / Declar’d, that all wives should cornute those men, / Who make such long rests, or pop in now and then.
at horn, n.2
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