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[UK] J.K. Baxter ‘Letter to Robert Burns’ in Coll. Poems (1979) 290: Till any Scotsman with the shakes / Can pile on your head his mistakes / And petrify a boozaroo / Reciting Tam o’ Shanter through.
at boozeroo, n.
[UK] J.K. Baxter in Coll. Poems (1979) 266: [poem title] An Ode to the Reigning Monarch on the Occasion of Her Majesty’s Visit to Pig Island.
at Pig Island, n.
[NZ] J.K. Baxter ‘Salutation to Tim Shadbolt’ in Coll. Poems (2003) 215: In Mother Crawford’s boarding house [i.e. Mt Crawford Gaol] you’ve time to meditate / Upon the good advice you've had from many a magistrate, / And if you stay a year or two, you needn’t do it hard, / The only disadvantage is the fact the door is barred.
at do it hard (v.) under do, v.1
[UK] J.K. Baxter ‘Letter to Sam Hunt’ in Coll. Poems (1979) 429: I do recall one evening, drunk / In Devonport on Dally plonk.
at Dally plonk (n.) under Dally, adj.
[UK] J.K. Baxter ‘The Counter-Lunch’ in Coll. Poems (1979) 359: Nobody gets a look in / When Caelius cleans up the counter-lunch / (They call him Garbage Guts).
at garbage guts (n.) under garbage, n.
[UK] J.K. Baxter ‘Letter to Sam Hunt’ in Coll. Poems (1979) 430: Her husband, that sad pudding-head, / Will pull himself each night in bed.
at pudding-head, n.
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