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late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 50/1: I depend on my Doe, / Who, a garden-stuff draper, trulls out on the cadge.at doe, n.1
late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 50/1: I depend on my Doe, / Who, a garden-stuff draper, trulls out on the cadge. late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 50/1: I depend on my Doe, / Who, a garden-stuff draper, trulls out on the cadge / With her ruffledum, puffledum, frizzledum madge!at garden, n.
Sporting World 19 Apr. 50/2: Mother Conroy’s cellar [...] where you may get supper, tobacco, lushings of beer [...] and a roaring boy to help it off more freely.at lushing, n.
late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 49/2: Her ruffledum, puffledum, frizzledum madge.at madge, n.
late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 49/2: And boozing and niggling. / And prigging and higgling.at niggling (n.) under niggle, v.
late 17C ballad quoted in Sporting World 19 Apr. 49/2: All my learning I got at St Giles’s pound / Where the nut-hook they taught me to handle quick.at nut-hook (n.) under nut, n.1
Sporting World 19 Apr. 50/2: In the Rookery formerly resided a species of malefactor denominated a router [...] a seedy, broken-down gentleman of good classical education [...] These routers were wont to forge the names of parsons, magistrates, churchwardens and overseers, in order to enable imposters to be passed from parish to another.at router, n.
Sporting World 19 Apr. 50/1: Forty to fifty Irish tailors, who carouse deeply in a description of small beer called swanky.at swanky, n.2
late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 50/1: I depend on my Doe, / Who, a garden-stuff draper, trulls out on the cadge.at troll, v.
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