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The Young Coalman’s Courtship to a Creel-Wife’s Daughter choose

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[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 9: I had a pair of cheeks like a chapman’s arse.
at arse, n.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 16: If that be your minister, he’s but a drunken b---h.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 10: He looked as fierce as a lion [...] and his nose was like a bublie-cock’s neb, as blue as a blawit.
at bubbly jock, n.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 5: Crack well o’ our wealth, and hide our poverty.
at crack, v.1
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 8: They ne’er fash’d wi’ us nor we wi’ them.
at fash, v.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 3: How old am I, mither, do you think I could man a hissey yet? Fegs am a mind to try.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 8: ‘She’s a weel far’d lusty hissy, I had a great kindness for her.’ ‘A well-a-wat she’s no lingle-tail’d, she may be a caff-bed to a good fallow.’.
at ling, n.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 3: How old am I, mither, do you think I could man a hissey yet? Fegs am a mind to try.
at man, v.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 5: You may [...] dab nebs wi’ her now an’ than, but be sure ye keep a clos mouth when ye kiss her.
at neb, n.1
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 3: Od! I never got sic fun.
at od, n.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 5: You may tak her head in your oxter, like a creesh pig, dab nebs wi’ her now an’ than.
at oxter, n.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 4: Her paps plays nidity nod when she gangs.
at paps, n.1
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 15: Wode I think ye’re a cumstrarie piece o’ stuff, it’s true enough your mither said o’ ye, that ye’re no for a poor man.
at piece of stuff (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 8: She can do nothing but scour ladies piss pots.
at pisspot, n.
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 2: Mary [...] blew her snotter-box.
at snotbox (n.) under snot, n.1
[UK] Young Coalman’s Courtship 4: Spout ye a mutchken o’ molash in her cheek, ye’ll get her mind an’ speed the better.
at spout, v.1
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