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[UK] Rump Songs II (1662) 55: Every noddy... will... cry hoddy-doddy / Here’s a Parliament all arse and no body.
at hoddy-doddy, n.
[UK] ‘The Penitent Traytor’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 56: O Tyburn, Tyburn; O thou sad Tryangle, / A vyler weight upon thee nee’r did dangle, / See here I am at last with Hemp to mew, / To give thee what was long before thy due.
at hemp, n.
[UK] ‘The Penitent Traytor’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 54: Which I did frame my self & thus did rook them, / They paid me when I gave, and when I took them.
at rook, v.1
[UK] ‘Thursday’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 184: And One makes nine Speeches while the Business was hot.
at business, n.
[UK] ‘Thursday’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 184: This Day a great Fart in the House they did hear, / Which made all the Members make Buttons for fear.
at one’s arse makes buttons (v.) under button, n.1
[UK] ‘Thursday’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 184: And One makes nine Speeches while the Business was hot.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 54: [title] ‘Bum-Fodder: or, Waste-Paper, proper to wipe the Nations Rump with, or your Own’.
at bum-fodder (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tom and Dick’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) ii 191: They took my Py-ball’d Mare; / And put the Carri’on Wench to th’ squeak: (Things go against the Hair).
at carrion, n.
[UK] ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tom and Dick’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) ii 188: Come, by this Hand, wee’l crack a quart, Thou’lt pledge his health, I trow.
at crack a bottle (v.) under crack, v.2
[UK] ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tom & Dick’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 190: My Doll has sold her Wedding-ring, / And Sue has pawn’d her Coat.
at doll, n.1
[UK] ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tom & Dick’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 190: There’s not a Penny to be had, / And ev’ry Mothers Son / Must fight, if he intend to eat.
at every mother’s son, n.
[UK] ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tom and Dick’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 191: And yet if George don’t hum his Gigg.
at gig, n.3
[UK] ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tom & Dick’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 188: Your City blades are cunning Rooks.
at rook, n.1
[UK] ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tom and Dick’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) ii 189: Dost see that Jolly Lad? That’s he [...] There’s a true Trojan in his face.
at Trojan, n.
[UK] ‘A Display of the Headpiece & Codpiece Valour’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 91: But the whole design was not worth two half-Turds.
at not worth a turd, phr.
[UK] ‘A Psalm of Mercy’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 195: We care not a Straw / For Reason or Law.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] ‘A Hymne to the Gentle Craft’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 153: He cares not for the Sessions a Lowse.
at not care a louse, v.
[UK] ‘The Second part’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 107: Duckenfield’s in a pittifull Case [...] And he’s thrown Aums Ace, / Tyburn owes him a reproach.
at ambs-ace, n.
[UK] ‘Rebellion’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 291: Speak tag and rag, short coat and long.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[UK] ‘The Rump Dockt’ Rump Poems and Songs II (1662) 44: Off goes the Rump, like Dick and Harry.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[UK] ‘A Medley’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 324: Some say the World is but a Cheat, / Troth we see’t / For the feet / Still rebell against the Head, / When Antipodean Rulers sway, / Who’el obey?
at antipodean, adj.
[UK] ‘A Letany for the New-year’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 94: From all and more than I have written here, / I wish you well protected [...] From Apron Preachers, and extempore Prayers.
at apron preacher (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] ‘To Whom it Concerns’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) i 113: Correct your prick-ear’d Seervants; and perswade / You long lov’d Arm-fulls; if you can thus trade / In Pigges and Poultry.
at armful (n.) under arm, n.
[UK] ‘Bum-Fodder’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 54: Lambert with all his men of Mars, / Have submitted to kiss the Parliaments Arse.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[UK] ‘The Re-resurrection of the Rump’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 2: But now thou hast got a prodigious Arse.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘A Vindication of the Rump’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 59: I saw a poor Fellow all nak’d to the waste, / And whipt at the Arse of a Cart.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘Bum-Fodder’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 56: ’Tis a pittifull passe you men of the Sword / Have brought yourselves to, that the Rump’s your Lord, / And Arsie Versie must be the word.
at arsey-varsey, phr.
[UK] ‘The Arraignment of the Devil for stealing away President Bradshaw’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 137: Devil, you are an Asse, / Plain it is, plain it is.
at ass, n.
[UK] ‘The Four-legg’d Quaker’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) i 359: She was by thee compelled; / Poor thing, whom no man ever backt, / Thou wickedly hast Bellied.
at back, v.1
[UK] ‘Saint George and the Dragon’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 181: And take in that Bull-headed, splay-footed Member of Circumcision, / You Bacon-fac’d Jew, Corbet: that Son of Perdition.
at bacon-faced (adj.) under bacon, n.1
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