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[UK] ‘British Sailor’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 3: She had put me in such a flusteration [...] I handed her my ’bacco box, when she told me she never chaw’d pigtail.
at bacca-box (n.) under bacca, n.
[UK] ‘Song’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 28: I seized upon madam, by gom she were fuddled [...] I never before had seen ou’t o’ this kind, For they tell’d ma as hoo, shoo was bang up and primed.
at bang-up, adj.
[UK] ‘Thinks I to Myself’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 5: Where’s neighbour Snip this evening! that’s a good natured fellow, but monstrously given to Cabbage.
at cabbage, n.1
[UK] ‘A Tailor’s Goose Can Never Fly’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 30: Tailors cabbage all your cloth.
at cabbage, v.1
[UK] ‘Disasters of Poor Jerry Blossom’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 28: I thou’t I were dead, Sike a queer kind of dizziness coom’d e ma head; Had I known his tricks I’d ge’en him a drilling.
at drill, v.1
[UK] ‘Song’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 28: I seized upon madam, by gom she were fuddled.
at gom, n.1
[UK] ‘Comical Tragedy of Little Tom Thumb’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 12: Old Grizzle, a lord, [...] for love got drunk as a sow, sir.
at grizzle, n.
[UK] ‘British Sailor’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 4: I [...] took her uncle out of Limbo for debt .
at limbo, n.
[UK] ‘British Sailor’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 3: So I look’d like a lubber, my messmates all laughed, While pardon I ask’d of Miss Polly.
at lubber, n.
[UK] ‘Thinks I to Myself’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 5: So poor Mrs. Muz, alas! / Who censur’d for ever Miss Mottle / For looking so oft’ in the Glass / Forgot that she look’d in the Bottle.
at muzzy, adj.
[UK] ‘British Sailor’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 3: She had put me in such a flusteration [...] I handed her my ’bacco box, when she told me she never chaw’d pigtail.
at pigtail, n.
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