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[UK] ‘The Charming Mot’ in Nobby Songster 40: Such women are no go for tailor’s / For treating they don’t care a jot.
at not care a jot, v.
[UK] ‘The Swell Coves Alphabet’ in Nobby Songster 29: P, stands for patent pills, Phoenix Alley and the P---.
at alley, n.1
[UK] ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Nobby Songster 48: May we always be able to insert a long article in the Ladies mag.
at article, n.
[UK] ‘Sarah’s A Blowen’ Nobby Songster 19: To the lush-ken I go, / And my bacca I blow.
at bacca, n.
[UK] ‘The Night Squall’ Nobby Songster 4: For over her a--- his huge b---s swing, / And his j--- is gulphed in a virgin q--m.
at balls, n.
[UK] ‘Miss Bounce Of Cock-Lane’ Nobby Songster 34: Mr. Balls I’m told you, ladies odd jobs can do, / For you are a man of great parts, sir.
at balls, n.
[UK] ‘The Swell Coves Alphabet’ in Nobby Songster 27: J. for Joe the Stunner, whose Banks may never burst.
at bank, n.1
[UK] ‘The Chaffing Family’ in Nobby Songster 13: To hear our young Tom it’s as good as a farce, / He’s chaffing of Hannah about her barge a--e.
at barge-arse (n.) under barge, n.1
[UK] ‘Mother Levy Was A Widow’ Nobby Songster 38: Mother Levy was a widow, and she got no little gain, / She kept a slap-up B—dyken not far from Drury Lane.
at bawdy-ken (n.) under bawdy, adj.
[UK] ‘The Swell Coves Alphabet’ Nobby Songster 27: B. for bilking bulleys, and old bawds of their pay.
at bilk, v.
[UK] ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Nobby Songster 47: The bird in the hand and then in the bush.
at bird, n.3
[UK] ‘The Chaffing Family’ in Nobby Songster 13: And he return chaff my mother, – for she: – / Has a bit on the sly, with the milkman you see.
at have a bit (v.) under bit, n.1
[UK] ‘The Long Three Square!’ in Nobby Songster 25: The jokes they are black as a kitchen coal, / Which all must admire when they look on the w-hole.
at black joke, n.
[UK] ‘Sarah’s A Blowen’ in Nobby Songster 18: Young Sarah’s a blowen: / Vot does the thing neat; / She’s kept by a Gent, / Who hundreds has spent, / On Sarah the blowen.
at blowen, n.
[UK] ‘Wanted A Woman!’ in Nobby Songster 26: My friends are me advising / To spend a bob or two / In the way of advertising.
at bob, n.3
[UK] ‘Miss Bounce Of Cock-Lane’ Nobby Songster 34: She sent him notes full a score, Sir, / Requesting that he’d come once more Sir, / But this he declined, for to his mind, / He never had met such a bore Sir.
at bore, n.2
[UK] ‘The Swell Coves Alphabet’ Nobby Songster 27: B. for bilking bulleys, and old bawds of their pay.
at bully, n.1
[UK] ‘Chaffing Family’ in Nobby Songster 12: Its a family failing, and chaffing you know / In most families now, had become all the go.
at chaffing, n.
[UK] ‘Henry The Brave’ in Nobby Songster 15: Dear charmer suffer me to ride, / Pray throw your pretty l--s aside.
at charmer, n.
[UK] ‘Miss Bounce Of Cock-Lane’ in Nobby Songster 33: Miss Bounce of Cocklane, had long been in pain, / About a most woeful disaster.
at cock lane (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] ‘The Fishmonger!’ Nobby Songster 36: I’m the chap with my slap up – / Cod, that is so stiff and fresh.
at cod, n.3
[UK] ‘When The Pip Hath Bereft Thee’ Nobby Songster 17: In the depth of thy sadness, / Thou’lt long for a P---; / And the thought shall be madness, / To thy worn out C---.
at cunt, n.
[UK] ‘Mother Levy Was A Widow’ Nobby Songster 38: Such crowds of folks now gather’d round, it quite cut up her trade.
at cut up, v.2
[UK] ‘The Man About Town’ in Nobby Songster 23: But like more petty tradesmen, who cut it very fat, / My tin ran short, and you may guess, I soon was out of that.
at cut it fat (v.) under cut it, v.3
[UK] ‘Toasts And Sentiments’ in Nobby Songster 48: A toast to the charmer whose dimple we prize.
at dimple, n.
[UK] ‘The Man About Town’ Nobby Songster 18: He cares not a dump, / Who kisses the rump, / Of Sarah the blowen!
at dump, n.1
[UK] ‘The Swell Coves Alphabet’ in Nobby Songster 28: F. for fancy fellows – did you ever see one green.
at fancy cove (n.) under fancy, adj.
[UK] ‘The Man About Town’ in Nobby Songster 23: And next as Polly’s fancy man, why I was taken on; / I hooked it out from room to room, when friends by chance dropt in. / And when they’d gone, my poll and I, we gaily spent the tin.
at fancy man, n.1
[UK] ‘The Queer Old Gentlemen’ Nobby Songster 19: These worn out sportsmen cock their gun, / When mischief is the plan, / But let ’em do their very best, / ’Tis a mere flash in the pan.
at flash in the pan, n.
[UK] ‘Sarah’s A Blowen’ in Nobby Songster 18: And see where the flashman, / Is sculking about, / For part of the swag, / He is on the look out.
at flashman, n.
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