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Nancy Dawson’s Jests choose

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[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 30: How grand to the gallows the doctor will pass, / With tag-rag and bobtail to follow his a—e!
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 13: You may bid the Devil kiss your A--e.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 13: What, says he, that urchin married to such a strapper, Oons, ’tis a glyster pipe in the arse of an elephant.
at arse, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 30: How grand to the gallows the doctor will pass, / With tag-rag and bobtail to follow his a--e!
at arse, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 4: A gentleman [...] asked how he [i.e. an alleged homosexual] made such a grand appearance [...] Why, says another who was by, to be sure he should desire you to ask his a-se.
at ask my...!, excl.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 15: An old woman had a jack ass run away [...] she called out to a man in the road, stop my ass master, stop me ass. Take a cork you old whore, and stop it yourself, say he.
at ass, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 5: Begar, ver good, said the Frenchman.
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 6: A soldier was carrying to be hang’d [and] a woman cried out, oh! poor soul, but ’tis what we must all come to; upon which [...] he said, not to the gallows you bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 9: An ignorant booby lived with a young gentleman at Oxford.
at booby, n.1
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 18: A gentleman in Ireland, remarkable for what are called bulls.
at bull, n.2
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 36: From the luscious tit bit to the bouncing jack whore, / From the bunters in rags to the gay pompadore.
at bunter, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 2: I’ll tell thee, Ned, I can dance a hornpipe, and thou canst make a wry face [...] but as to any thing farther, I am a bunting w—e and thou are a dirty son of a b—h.
at bunting, adj.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 15: Come, gentlemen, says she, [...] which of you will set up your cock till I knock it down.
at cock, n.3
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 10: It was agreed, that he should whip her cogie at the end of every mile.
at whip someone’s cogie (v.) under cogie, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 33: They will handsomely down with the cole.
at cole, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 11: One of those convenient houses, which is also an Inn on occasion.
at convenient, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 36: Ye brimstones of Drury and Exeter-street / [...] / Obey the glad summons and quickly repair / To —’s new warehouse for crack’d earthenware.
at cracked pitcher (n.) under cracked, adj.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 1: A young lady asked her eldest sister, why miss Dawson turn’d her toes out so in dancing? It is, my dear, cries she, to cool her **** .
at cunt, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 33: D--- my blood, sir, – away – you must all to mill doll.
at mill doll, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 36: No longer shall trudge, now each draggle tail trull, / Thro hail, rain or snow, to pick up a cull.
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 8: A country squire [...] pull’d down his breeches and farted.
at fart, v.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 36: There Nancy and Lucy no more can bewail, / The woful effects of fire in their tail.
at fire, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 36: Ye brimstones of Drury and Exeter-street / Ye frows of the town, and ye molls of the Fleet.
at froe, n.1
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 13: A gentleman very much fuddled.
at fuddled, adj.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 27: The doctor is no sooner gone, / But gallipot sends in; / A load of pills to cure all ills, / And jigs you once again.
at gallipot, n.
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 41: With you I’ll toy, and kiss and play; / But hang me if I marry.
at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 11: Mother Brown, keeping a house of civil reception in Ireland, a girl went into a private room with the late lord Thomond.
at house of civil reception (n.) under house, n.1
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 11: Why! Betty! cries she [i.e. a bawd], no body to fetch the girls to the gentlemen, oh! my God , what will become of this house when I am in the bosom of my sweet saviour.
at house, n.1
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 1: Nancy was good at it, for that either standing or lying, her movements were excellent.
at it, n.1
[UK] Nancy Dawson’s Jests 36: From the luscious tit bit to the bouncing jack whore, / From the bunters in rags to the gay pompadore.
at jack-whore (n.) under jack, n.1
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