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[UK] ‘Rampant Moll Was A Rum Old Mot’ Secret Songster 4: He could dance – he could slog – and get drunk as a hog.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] ‘Mouths For The Men’ Secret Songster 23: She screw’d up her mouth like a chicken’s a-- hole.
at arsehole, n.
[UK] ‘The Face Without A Nose’ Secret Songster 113: At last the maiden teazed and vex’d, yet bent on frolick, too, / Pull’d up her petticoats and shew’d her backside to his view.
at backside, n.
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ in Secret Songster 17: The nasty old whore / Squatted down on her a--- and s--t bang on the floor.
at bang, adv.
[UK] ‘Rampant Moll Was A Rum Old Mot’ in Secret Songster 5: She batter’d his block – vhich gave him a shock.
at block, n.1
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ in Secret Songster 14: I’ll sing you an out-and-out chaunt, if you like, / About blear-eyed Molly, and goggled-eyed Mike; / Who being dead nuts on this rummy old whore, / He jump’d over the broomstick vith her to be sure.
at jump (over) the broomstick, v.
[UK] ‘The Man That’s No Use At All’ in Secret Songster 40: Too soon he found out he was burnt very neatly.
at burn, v.
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ in Secret Songster 14: I’ll sing you an out-and-out chaunt, if you like.
at chant, n.
[UK] ‘The Ladies Doctor’ in Secret Songster n.p.: My glister pipe is such a rum un, / A better one never could wag – / And to ease a poor invalid woman, / I’ve two bolusses tight in a bag.
at clyster-pipe, n.
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ in Secret Songster 14: I’ll sing you an out-and-out chaunt, if you like, / About blear-eyed Molly, and goggled-eyed Mike; / Who being dead nuts on this rummy old whore, / He jump’d over the broomstick vith her to be sure.
at dead nuts, adv.
[UK] ‘Kiss My Duff’ in Secret Songster 19: I never takes no mummery. / ’Cause I’m a regular – ‘kiss my duff’.
at duff, n.2
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ in Secret Songster 17: Then crooked-back Susan so suddenly cried [...] I must go to the dunniken – but the nasty old whore / Squatted down on her a--- and s--t bang on the floor.
at dunnaken, n.
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ Secret Songster 14: I’ll sing you an out-and-out chaunt, if you like, / About blear-eyed Molly, and goggle-eyed Mike.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[UK] ‘Kate Randy’ in Secret Songster 6: Such a regular good blowen to flare up.
at flare up, v.
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ in Secret Songster 15: There was ev’ry flash blowen, and ev’ry flash man.
at flash, adj.
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ in Secret Songster 15: There was ev’ry flash blowen, and ev’ry flash man.
at flash blowen (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] ‘A Blow-Out Among The Blowen’ in Secret Songster 17: The nasty old whore / Squatted down on her a--- and s--t bang on the floor [...] Oh, then sich a fogo vos in every part, / The cock loft smelt vorser than any night cart.
at fogo, n.
[UK] ‘Rampant Moll Was A Rum Old Mot’ in Secret Songster 4: And if you’d know why – most gallowsly / Fond of a drain vos she.
at gallows, adv.
[UK] ‘Moses Samuals And The Nasty Little Vomans’ in Secret Songster 10: And den at last she gammon’d me to go vith her to bed.
at gammon, v.
[UK] ‘Mouths For The Men’ in Secret Songster 23: Then the girls stretch’d their gills so monstrously wide.
at gills, n.1
[UK] ‘Kate Randy’ Secret Songster 6: She’s got but von eye, and her mouth’s all awry. / But a rum ’un to go is Kate Randy.
at go, v.
[UK] ‘Will You See What I Have Got?’ Secret Songster 46: It’s like a beefsteak pudding, / Or something there about; / For no sooner it comes near the lips, / But the gravy it runs out.
at gravy, n.
[UK] ‘The Tinker’ in Secret Songster 43: He put his hammer in her hand, and she gave it a jerk, / To let the cuckold know that the tinker was at work.
at hammer, n.1
[UK] ‘On The Borders Of Billingsgate Vaters’ Secret Songster 21: He’d not had a voman, d’ye see, / For a month, so quite frisky was he! [...] And to snooze vith her made it all right.
at have, v.
[UK] ‘Rampant Moll Was A Rum Old Mot’ in Secret Songster 6: So Rampant Moll ’stead of valking for cod – / Vos sent o’er the herring pond.
at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
[UK] ‘Toast’ in Secret Songster 48: May the thatch’d cottage in Thy Lane always have a standing tenant.
at thatched house (under the hill), n.
[UK] ‘Kiss My Duff’ in Secret Songster 20: They knows to any thing I’m game, / And lushes me vith quarts o’ max.
at lush, v.
[UK] ‘Rampant Moll Was A Rum Old Mot’ in Secret Songster 5: He gazed on her plump, and thought from her rump, / Vhat an out-and-out mare vos she.
at mare, n.1
[UK] ‘Rampant Moll Was A Rum Old Mot’ in Secret Songster 5: She turned out her toes, and clapt on her clothes, / And vos going to morrice avay.
at morris, v.
[UK] ‘The Ladies Doctor’ in Secret Songster 28: When I only get into their mortar, / With my pestle I hammer away.
at mortar, n.
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