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The Whole Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy choose

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[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 5: We may do it ay; what an we get a bystart, an’ hae to suffer for the foul act of fornication.
at by-blow, n.
[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 8: Wha’s thou gaun to get? It’s not auld bubly Tammy?
at bubbly jock, n.
[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 32: Jockey and his mither came hame together, chick for chew, cracking like two hand guns.
at crack, v.1
[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 3: I think your father was a fool for fashing wi’ him.
at fash, v.
[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 42: He brings a bottle [...] she sets it to her gab.
at gab, n.1
[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 38: A foul be your gabs, ye’re a fae gash o’ your gabbies.
at gab, n.2
[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 6: The gawn gear was to be divided between me an’ my mither; an’ if she died first a’ her gear was to come amang mine.
at gear, n.
[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 12: He having a great lang nose like a trumpet, she recklessly came o’er his lobster neb a drive wi’ the laddle, until the blood sprang out.
at neb, n.1
[Scot] Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 22: The constable [...] catched John at his breakfast, hauls him awa, an at ilka oxter, like two butcher dogs, hingin at a bull’s beard.
at oxter, n.
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