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Don Juan canto I line 1094: They’re on the stair just now, and in a crack Will all be here.at in a crack under crack, n.1
Don Juan canto I line 1094: They’re on the stair just now, and in a crack Will all be here. Don Juan canto II line 1037: The good old man had so much nous.at nous, n.
Don Juan canto III stanza 126: And I grown out of many ‘wooden spoons’ / Of verse (the name with which we Cantabs please / To dub the last of honours in degrees) .at Cantab., n.
Don Juan canto VIII line 24: But Juan was quite ‘a broth of a boy’, a thing of impulse and a child of song .at broth of a boy, n.
(ref. to late 18C) note to Don Juan Canto XI stanza 19: The following is a stanza of a song which was very popular, at least in my early days [...] ‘If you at the spellken can’t hustle / You’ll be hobbled in making a clout’.at clout, n.3
Don Juan canto XI line 133: A thorough varmint and a real swell, Full flash, all fancy, until fairly diddled, His pockets first, and then his body riddled.at diddle, v.2
Don Juan canto XI line 385: The milliners who furnish ‘drapery Misses’ [...] upon speculation Of payment ere the honeymoon’s last kisses.at drapery miss, n.
Don Juan canto XI line 133: A thorough varmint and a real swell, Full flash, all fancy, until fairly diddled, His pockets first, and then his body riddled.at flash, adj.
Don Juan canto XI line 147: Who in a row like Tom could lead the van, [...] Who queer a flat? Who (spite of Bow-street’s ban) On the high-toby-spice so flash the muzzle?at flash the muzzle (v.) under flash, v.1
Don Juan canto XI line 147: Who in a row like Tom could lead the van, [...] Who queer a flat? Who (spite of Bow-street’s ban) On the high-toby-spice so flash the muzzle?at high-toby spice (n.) under high-toby, n.
(ref. to late 18C) note to Don Juan Canto XI 149: The following is a stanza of a song which was very popular, at least in my early days [...] ‘If you at the spellken can’t hustle / You’ll be hobbled in making a clout’.at hobble, v.
Don Juan canto XI line 151: Who on a lark, with black-eyed Sal (his blowing) So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing.at nutty, adj.1
Don Juan canto XI line 80: ‘Damn your eyes! your money or your life!’ These freeborn sounds proceeded from four pads, In ambush laid.at pad, n.1
Don Juan canto XI line 99: [Juan] Drew forth a pocket-pistol [...] And fired it into one assailant’s pudding.at pudding, n.
Don Juan canto XI line 147: Who in a row like Tom could lead the van, [...] Who queer a flat? Who (spite of Bow-street’s ban) On the high-toby-spice so flash the muzzle?at queer, v.
in note to Don Juan Canto IX 149: Then your blowing will wax gallows haughty, / When she hears of your scaly mistake.at scaly, adj.
(ref. to late 18C) note to Don Juan Canto XI 149: The following is a stanza of a song which was very popular, at least in my early days [...] ‘She’ll surely turn snitch for the forty – / That her Jack may be regular weight’.at turn snitch (v.) under snitch, n.1
(ref. to late 18C) note to Don Juan Canto XI 149: The following is a stanza of a song which was very popular, at least in my early days [...] ‘If you at the spellken can’t hustle / You’ll be hobbled in making a clout’.at spellken, n.
Don Juan canto XI line 133: Poor Tom was once a kiddy upon the town, A thorough varmint, and a real swell, Full flash, all fancy.at swell, n.1
Don Juan canto XI line 133: Poor Tom was once a kiddy upon the town, A thorough varmint, and a real swell, Full flash, all fancy.at on the town under town, n.2
Don Juan canto XVI line 244: Lord Henry said, his muffin was ill butter’d; The Duchess of Fitz-Fulke play’d with her veil.at fulke, v.
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