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Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter choose

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[UK] ‘The Jolly Pilgrim’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 10: My tenement is brittle, / And is, I fear, too little.
at apartment (to let), n.
[UK] ‘The Dandy Petticoat’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 5: They are so dandyfied, they cannot stoop, alas! / But what the gentlemen must see all their ---.
at ass, n.
[UK] ‘The Plumber’s Ball-cock’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 24: The plumber, in her closet, now put a long waste pipe, / And thereby made it leak again, which caused her oft to wipe; / So out again, with all his main / He pull’d it, which caus’d a disaster, / Her back premises o’erflow’d, / And she cried come screw the cock in faster.
at back-door, n.
[UK] ‘A Chaunt by Slapped-up Kate and Dubber Daff’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 47: [He] looks the Corinthian — swellish and prime, / When tcick’d [sic] out for balsam rape.
at balsam, n.
[UK] ‘Othello’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 22: As soon as Othello came back, Iago told him a great crammer, sir [...] This thief said, that Cassio and her, / Made the beast with two backs in her chamber, O!
at make the beast with two backs (v.) under beast, n.
[UK] ‘A Chaunt by Slapped-up Kate and Dubber Daff’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 46: I’ve buss’d and been nutty on fifty young biddies, / And ring’d them as oft as you see.
at biddy, n.2
[UK] ‘Ye Rakehells So Jolly’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 26: While that’s to be had, let’s be drunk and be mad, / And fling all our wigs in the fire. / Break bottles and glasses, bilk landlords and lasses.
at bilk, v.
[UK] ‘Life In London’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 11: The yokels all are floor’d with fright, / So full of yawns and gazes; That up to town to see the sight, / They’re pouring in like blazes.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[UK] ‘The Slap-Up Cracksman’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 42: Then lush away each rummy prig, / And freely bleed a quid.
at bleed, v.1
[UK] ‘The Blowing In Quod’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 40: And there stood a knock-me-down chap / A coming to bone poor me.
at bone, v.1
[UK] ‘The Beak and Trap to Roost are Gone’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 49: Nor peck nor booze too have we got, / Nor ken nor dab have we.
at booze, n.
[UK] ‘Othello’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 22: He dropt it in Cassio’s snoozing ken – / And so nicely contrived a plan, / For Othy to meet them in a boozing ken.
at bousing-ken, n.
[UK] ‘Ye Rakehells So Jolly’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 26: While thus cherry merry, let Harris and Derry, With faces uncommon supply us; / Poll French and Bet Weyms, and such batter’d old brims, / Ye pimps, let them never come nigh us.
at brim, n.1
[UK] ‘The Slap-Up Cracksman’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 43: So flick the suck — or draw the clicks, / The lil, the jam, or bung from kicks.
at bung, n.1
[UK] ‘A Chaunt by Slapped-up Kate & Dubber Daff’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 46: I’ve buss’d and been nutty on fifty young biddies, / And ring’d them as oft as you see.
at buss, v.1
[UK] ‘Life In London’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 12: Then for harmony resort – / Get lushy among the cadgers.
at cadger, n.
[UK] ‘Life In London’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 11: Chaunt a stave, and blow a cloud.
at chant, v.
[UK] ‘Ye Rakehells So Jolly’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 26: While thus cherry merry, let Harris and Derry / With faces uncommon supply us.
at cherry-merry, adj.
[UK] ‘The Slap-Up Cracksman’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 42: Who would / [...] / Stow a chum within a drag; / Or Norway neckcloth’s knot.
at chum, n.
[UK] ‘The Slap-Up Cracksman’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 43: So flick the suck — or draw the clicks, / The lil, the jam, or bung from kicks.
at click, n.3
[UK] ‘Life In London’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 11: Chaunt a stave, and blow a cloud.
at blow a cloud (v.) under cloud, n.
[UK] ‘The Cly-Pecker’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 38: As these palls were at snooze, this old bawd pick’d the cly.
at cly, n.
[UK] ‘The Plumber’s Ball-cock’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 25: The cock did likewise leak – it was not a good fit: / So he very wisely, with two stones, began to drive it in.
at cock, n.3
[UK] ‘The Chapter Of Cocks’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 36: But he wasn’t so cock-brain’d as really to do it.
at cock-brain (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] ‘The Chapter Of Cocks’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 35: One Cocky Cock, who lived in Cock-lane.
at cock lane (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] ‘Chapter Of Cocks’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 36: And when he found he wasn’t cock o’ the walk, / ’Bout hanging himself he began to talk.
at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] ‘The Chapter Of Cocks’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 36: She was teased too by a nasty cock-chaffer; / But Cock all the way made himself secure, This cock-eyed maid was his cock-sure.
at cockchafer, n.
[UK] ‘The Chapter Of Cocks’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 35: They roll’ ’neath the hay-cocks, had for tea, cocoa, / Then hot cockles played ’till time to go.
at play at hot cockles (v.) under cockles, n.
[UK] ‘The Slap-Up Cracksman’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 42: Coves that have as cracksmen plied, / Coves that have by beaks been tried.
at cracksman, n.1
[UK] ‘Othello’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 22: As soon as Othello came back, Iago told him a great crammer, sir [...] This thief said, that Cassio and her, / Made the beast with two backs in her chamber, O!
at crammer, n.
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