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Regular Thing, And No Mistake, or, a Prime Collection of Flash Chaunts choose

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[UK] Vanbrugh Mistake Act V: Why, Madam, have you no Pity [...] [to] Stand and see one of your Husbands stoter’d before your Face?
at stoter, v.
[UK] ‘A Celebrated Flash Parody’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 57: His ammunition being spent, / And I being out of breath with sweating.
at ammunition, n.
[UK] ‘Oyster Nan’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 93: It scarcely had a bit of beard.
at beard, n.
[UK] ‘A Shove In The Mouth’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 61: Oh! remember the time, when Canary-bird you / I toddled to see you in trib.
at canary-bird, n.1
[UK] ‘My Dimber Mot’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 67: And should we meet a Lushington, / He’s spoken with for you, / From ticker, lil, or bright ribbon, / To fadge – or bird’s eye, blue.
at bird’s eye, n.
[UK] ‘Hal And Cis’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 91: How pure a stroke ’twill be, nay fine, / When you clap your black joke to mine.
at black joke, n.
[UK] ‘The Turncock’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 68: Sam swore he loved, she swore again, / ‘blow her if she’d marry’, / He thought to blow his brains out / straight, and toddle to old Harry.
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] ‘A Shove in The Mouth’ Regular Thing, and No Mistake 61: I toddled to see you in trib; And brought belly-timber, with a little of blue, / Stowed under my camesa and bib.
at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] ‘A Shove In The Mouth’ Regular Thing and No Mistake 61: I toddled to see you in trib; And brought belly-timber, with a little of blue, / Stowed under my camesa and bib.
at camesa, n.
[UK] ‘The Turncock’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 70: Her husband used to do her jobs, but since he closed life’s business, / Her cock had been neglected, which oft caused her much uneasiness.
at cock, n.4
[UK] ‘A Shove In The Mouth’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 62: I slabb’d not for a week, nor a cooler e’en grabb’d.
at cooler, n.
[UK] ‘A Shove In The Mouth’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 61: When I tipped you a fogle to twist round each damp / That sported a cramp-ring so queer.
at cramp-rings, n.
[UK] ‘A Celebrated Flash Parody’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 56: The Highland lad he drew his dirk and / sheathed into my wanton leather.
at dirk, n.1
[UK] ‘Ye Scamps, Ye Pads, Ye Divers’ Regular Thing, And No Mistake 62: [as cit. 1781–2].
at diver, n.
[UK] ‘Ye Scamps, Ye Pads, Ye Divers’ Regular Thing, And No Mistake 62: [as cit. 1781–2].
at mill doll, n.
[UK] ‘Ye Scamps, Ye Pads, Ye Divers’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 62: At your Insurance Office the flats you’ve taken in; / The game you’ve play’d, my kiddy, you’re always sure to win.
at flat, n.2
[UK] ‘The Turncock’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 68: Sam swore he loved, she swore again, / ‘blow her if she’d marry’, / He thought to blow his brains out / straight, and toddle to old Harry.
at Old Harry, n.
[UK] ‘Ye Scamps, Ye Pads, Ye Divers’ Regular Thing, and No Mistake 62: [as cit. 1781–2].
at jigger-dubber (n.) under jigger, n.1
[UK] ‘Ye Scamps, Ye Pads, Ye Divers’ Regular Thing, And No Mistake 63: [as cit. 1781–2].
at snoozing ken, n.
[UK] ‘The Turncock’ Regular Thing, and No Mistake 70: Perhaps her cock, sir, If t’would not run, ’twas very likely damaged in the lock, sir.
at lock, n.1
[UK] ‘The Parish Priest’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 74: So then Mr. Priest, if you’d keep a whole lockey, / Leave Onah’s two sweet lips to Darby alone.
at locker, n.2
[UK] ‘The Covey Of The Mill’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 64: He’s gone to Brixton Mill for the prigging he has done.
at mill, n.1
[UK] ‘A Shove In The Mouth’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 61: And remember the mish that I brought you before / You went up to stare the big wig.
at mish, n.1
[UK] ‘Moses And Rachael’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 84: Shelling rhuparps, and hard-vare, I travell’d apout, / Of monish I vas a good earner.
at monish, n.
[UK] ‘A Shove In The Mouth’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 62: And when that I found seven-pen’orth you nabb’d, / So cut up and cast down was I.
at nab, v.1
[UK] ‘Smutty Chimney Sweeper’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 83: And if any maid is moneyless and feels the times’ hard pressure, / If she has any night-work, he will do it for the pleasure.
at night work (n.) under night, n.
[UK] ‘A Shove In The Mouth’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 61: And how too I lagged at the nubbing-cheat door, / To hear if you were spoke for a jig.
at nubbing cheat (n.) under nubbing, n.
[UK] ‘My Dimber Mot’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 66: When Charleys in their wink cribs squat, / And padders rum, are loosed: / When coveys tip a flashy chaunt / Beneath Sir Olive’s glare, / And upright doxies sport and flaunt, / And bargain for their ware.
at Sir Oliver, n.
[UK] ‘Oyster Nan’ Regular Thing, and No Mistake 93: He said, ‘fair maid, your hand you’ve put, [...] Upon the oyster I should like, / With your consent, just to open.
at oyster, n.
[UK] Regular Thing, and No Mistake 93: [song title] ‘Oyster Nan’ .
at oyster, n.
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