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[UK] Rochester ‘The Wish’ in Complete Poems (2006) 80: Thus Bravo-like, I’ll saucilly impose / And safe from danger, valiantly advise.
at bravo, n.
[UK] Swift ‘Mary the Cookmaid’s Letter’ in Complete Poems (1983) 187: I have been his servant four years [...] and never called me worse than sweetheart, drunk or sober; / Not that I know his Reverence was ever concern’d to my knowledge.
at concerned, adj.
[UK] Keats Complete Poems (1976) 333: The slang of cities in no wise he knew, Tipping the wink to him was heathen Greek. He sipped no olden Tom or ruin blue, or nantz or cherry brandy .
at old tom, n.
[UK] B. Bunting ‘First Book of Odes: 4’ Complete Poems (1968) 90: ...yet when the fellow with the red-hot poker comes / truculently to torment our blisters, we vie / with one another to present scarified bums / to the iron, clutching sausages greedily.
at bum, n.1
[UK] B. Bunting ‘First Book of Odes’ in Complete Poems 7: Endless disappointed buckshee-hunt!
at baksheesh, n.
[UK] Basil Bunting Complete Poems ‘First Book of Odes: 9’: Only a savage’s / lusts explode slapbang at the first touch like bombs.
at slap-bang, adv.
[UK] E. Hemingway ‘Little Mr Wilson’ in Complete Poems (1992) 97: All the ball-less critics / All their cuntless wives.
at cuntless (adj.) under cunt, n.
[UK] Basil Bunting Complete Poems ‘Attis: Or, Something Missing’: (O Sis! / I’ve been ’ad! / I’ve been ’ad proper!).
at had, adj.
[UK] B. Bunting ‘Attis: Or, Something Missing’ Complete Poems 28: Out of puff / noonhot in tweeds and gray felt.
at puff, n.
[UK] B. Bunting The Well of Lycopolis’Complete Poems n.p.: ‘...I remember during the War / kids carrying the clap to school under their pinnies’.
at clap, n.
[UK] B. Bunting ‘The Well of Lycopolis’ Complete Poems (1868) 29: He used to cuddle me. Fat lot of good its done me!
at fat lot (n.) under fat, adj.
[UK] B. Bunting Complete Poems ’The Well of Lycopolis’ n.p.: Swapped your spare boots for a packet of gaspers.
at gasper, n.
[UK] B. Bunting ‘The Well of Lycopolis’ in Complete Poems 37: Whatever I may have done at other times / on the sly / I was in love then and no mistake.
at and no mistake under mistake, n.
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