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The Merry Muses of Caledonia choose

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[Scot] ‘Green Sleeves’ Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 84: I shall rouse her in the morn, / My fiddle and I thegither.
at fiddle, n.1
[Scot] ‘The Court of Equity’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 212: For ye had furl’d up her sails, / An’ was at play at heads an’ tails.
at heads and tails, n.
[Scot] Burns ‘The Court of Equity’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 212: An’ gied her canister a rattle.
at canister, n.1
[Scot] ‘The Court of Equity’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 210: He who when at a lass’s by-job, / Defrauds her with a frig or dry-bob.
at frig, n.
[Scot] ‘Green Grow the Rashes O’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 75: The lasses they hae wimble bores, [i.e. small holes] / The widows they hae gashes O.
at gash, n.1
[Scot] Burns ‘The Court of Equity’ in Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 212: Tho’ it’s weel-kend that, at her gyvle, / Ye hae gien mony a kytch an’ kyvle.
at gyvel, n.
[Scot] ‘The Patriarch’ Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 88: How lang, she says, ye fumblin’ wretch, / Will ye be fucking at it.
at at it under it, n.1
[Scot] Burns ‘Here’s His Health in Water’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 101: He followed me baith out an’ in, / Wi’ a stiff stanin’ pillie.
at pillicock, n.
[Scot] ‘The Court of Equity’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 212: An’ gied her canister a rattle.
at rattle, n.
[Scot] ‘The Court of Equity’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 211: Ye hae rais’d a hurlie-burlie / In Maggy Mitchel’s tirlie-whurlie.
at tirly-whirly, n.
[Scot] ‘The Court of Equity’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 214: You monsieur brown, as it is proven, / Meg Mitchel’s wame by you was hoven.
at wame, n.
[Scot] Burns ‘Sing, Up Wi’t, Aily’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 83: Deil ram their lugs, quo’ Willie, / But I hae scour’d her dock!
at dock, n.1
[Scot] Burns ‘Ellibanks and Ellibraes’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 138: There’s no a lass in a’ the land, / Can fuck sae weel as I can.
at fuck, v.
[Scot] Burns ‘Sing, Up Wi’t, Aily’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 83: Deil ram their lugs, quo’ Willie, / But I hae scour’d her dock!
at lug, n.1
[Scot] ‘Ellibanks and Ellibraes’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 138: Louse down your breeks, lug out your wand.
at wand, n.
[Scot] ‘The Bower of Bliss’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 198: All panting on thy breast recline, / And, murmuring, bless that bower of thine.
at bower (of bliss), n.
[Scot] Burns ‘Plenipotentiary’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 202: Bully for the great Plenipotentiary.
at bully for —! (excl.) under bully, adj.1
[Scot] Burns ‘Duncan Davidson’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 144: There was a lass, they ca’d her Meg, ...] She fee’d a lad to lift her leg, / They ca’d him Duncan Davidson.
at lift one’s leg (v.) under leg, n.
[Scot] ‘Plenipotentiary’ Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 202: She was fond of the quid, for she had been well rid / From Washington down to a nigger.
at nigger, n.1
[Scot] Burns ‘The Plenipotentiary’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 203: The Nymphs of the Stage did his ramrod engage.
at ramrod, n.
[Scot] ‘Plenipotentiary’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 202: The next for a shag came the new Yankee flag; / Tho’ lanky and scraggy in figure.
at shag, n.1
[Scot] ‘Plenipotentiary’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 203: Each sluice-cunted bawd, who’d been shagged [?] abroad, / Till her premises gaped like a grave, sir.
at sluice-cunted (adj.) under sluice, n.
[Scot] Burns ‘Come rede me, dame’ in Merry Muses (1964) 60: The carlin clew her wanton tail, Her wanton tail sae ready.
at claw, v.
[Scot] Burns ‘Come rede me, dame’ in Merry Muses (1964) 61: Come lowse and lug your battering ram, And thrash him at my gyvel.
at gyvel, n.
[Scot] Burns ‘Come rede me, dame’ in Merry Muses of Caledonia (1964) 59: Come nidge me, Tam, come nidge me Tam, / Come nidge me o’er the nyvel!
at nudge, v.1
[Scot] Burns ‘Come rede me, dame’ in Merry Muses (1964) 58: But for a koontrie c-nt like mine, [...] We’ll tak tway thumb-bread to the nine, And tha’s a sonsy p-ntle.
at sonsy, adj.
[Scot] Burns ‘There Was Twa Wives’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 70: There was twa wives, and twa witty wives, / As e’er played houghmagandie.
at play at houghmagandie (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[Scot] ‘When Princes and Prelates’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 54: But truce with commotions and new-fangled notions, / A bumper I trust you’ll allow.
at bumper, n.2
[Scot] ‘There Was Twa Wives’ Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 70: The beans and pease cam down her thighs, / And she cackit a’ her stockins.
at cack, v.1
[Scot] ‘When Princes and Prelates’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 54: May the deil in her arse ram a huge prick of brass! / An’ damn her in hell wi’ a mowe.
at mow, n.
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