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[UK] ‘Stinking Breath’ in Ticklish Minstrel 44: One night, drunk as Chloe, he went home to rest.
at drunk as Chloe, adj.
[UK] ‘Old Hat’s The Very Thing We Like’ in Ticklish Minstrel 29: There’s boss-eyed Peg.
at boss-eyed, adj.
[UK] ‘Sal Slobber’s Out A Tailing Gone’ in Ticklish Minstrel 27: Her C.P. walks behind her.
at c.p., n.
[UK] ‘Hurrah For The Mots!’ in Ticklish Minstrel 30: To think they may be [...] gallows hard up vith the pox.
at gallows, adv.
[UK] ‘Old Hat’s The Very Thing We Like’ in Ticklish Minstrel 29: There’s boss-eyed Peg has got a hat / So very tight and small, / There’s scarcely any man, in turn, / Can fit it on at all. / And Suke, her rare old hat’s quite bare, / But open as a lane.
at hat, n.
[UK] ‘Stinking Breath’ in Ticklish Minstrel 46: D--n that fishmonger, [...] If I find out his name, I will well tan his hide.
at tan someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
[UK] ‘I’ll Never Do So Any More’ Ticklish Minstrel 11: I’ll have his ten inches.
at inch, n.
[UK] ‘What Will You Do When I Get You In Bed’ Ticklish Minstrel 16: With that long instrument and its ruby nose so red?
at instrument, n.
[UK] ‘The Wager’ in Ticklish Minstrel 7: He set himself down, pitched into the food [...] When he’d blown out his kite, he bade them good night.
at blow out the kite (v.) under kite, n.
[UK] ‘Mother Jones’ Ticklish Minstrel 36: She keeps a nice knocking crib down in Leg Alley.
at knocking-shop, n.
[UK] ‘Mother Jones’ Ticklish Minstrel 35: There’s a bawdy-house keeper I admire [...] And sweet mother Jones is the shickster I love.
at mother, n.
[UK] ‘The Sailor’s Yard’ in Ticklish Minstrel 32: ‘Alas! O lackaday!’ cried she, / ‘No more ’twill be popt in the open C.’ [Ibid.] 33: ‘O lor, what a yard!’ she cried, with a grin [...] And insisted that Jack should plough the wide C.
at open charms (n.) under open, adj.
[UK] ‘The Sailor’s Yard’ Ticklish Minstrel 33: ‘O lor, what a yard!’ she cried, with a grin [...] And insisted that Jack should plough the wide C.
at plough, v.
[UK] ‘The Wager’ in Ticklish Minstrel 9: The place that came from must be a rare towser, / For I never before did hear such a rouser.
at rouser, n.
[UK] ‘Stinking Breath’ in Ticklish Minstrel 45: Your breath stinks just like any s--t-house.
at shithouse, n.
[UK] ‘The Wager’ Ticklish Minstrel 5: He would towzle the young chambermaid.
at touzle, v.
[UK] ‘Mother Jones’ in Ticklish Minstrel 32: The mot tells me I do the trick prime.
at do the trick (v.) under trick, n.1
[UK] ‘Stinking Breath’ in Ticklish Minstrel 44: His wife [...] kept letting dumb trumps, which kept up a great stink.
at trump, n.1
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