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The Merry Melodist choose

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[UK] ‘Mr. Mug; or, The Witty Cockney’ in Merry Melodist 5: I met a trading Black-a-moor, a woolly old humbug.
at humbug, n.
[UK] ‘Widow Waddle, of Chickabiddy Lane’ in Merry Melodist 6: Tommy Tick he dress’d in pompadour, with double channel’d pumps. And look’d, when he’d his jazy on, just like the Jack of Trumps.
at jasey, n.
[UK] ‘Widow Waddle, of Chickabiddy Lane’ in Merry Melodist 6: Mrs. Tick, one day, inflam’d with max and muggy weather, / She with a joint-stool broke the peace, and Tommy’s head together.
at max, n.
[UK] ‘Way of the World’ in Merry Melodist 6: You swagger and palaver and make the folks think, / You are a man of property, and plenty of chink.
at palaver, v.
[UK] ‘Pretty Deary’ in Merry Melodist 3: Across her meantime, came a tall Irish beaux, / Who like me in pocket was peery.
at peery, adj.
[UK] ‘The Sawyer and the Lawyer’ in Merry Melodist 8: Cried Jack the saw rasper, I say neighbour Grasper.
at rasper, n.
[UK] ‘Widow Waddle, of Chickabiddy Lane’ in Merry Melodist 6: Her neighbour, Tommy Tick, a tally man was he.
at tick, n.3
[UK] ‘Widow Waddle, of Chickabiddy Lane’ in Merry Melodist 6: They’d words, and with a large cow-heel she gave him such a wipe.
at wipe, n.
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