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The Collier’s Wedding choose

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[UK] E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 6: [He] made a Brush up to the Maid, / How do you Lass, the Lover said [...] Then seiz’ her Hand, and being strong, / He lugg’d the willing Maid along.
at have a brush with a woman (v.) under brush, n.2
[UK] E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 3: What Sports and Feasting do ensue, When such-like Mortals buckle to.
at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
[UK] E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 32: Young Tommy cock’d, and Jenny spread, So here I leave them both in Bed.
at cock, v.1
[UK] E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 29: So now the drunken, senseless Crew, Break Pipes, spill Drink, piss, shit, and spew.
at crew, n.
[UK] E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 12: For she would funk, smoke, fart, and drink.
at funk, v.1
[UK] E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 29: So now the drunken, senseless Crew, Break Pipes, spill Drink, piss, shit, and spew.
at shit, v.
[UK] E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 24: They call her Bitch, and Jade, and Sow.
at sow, n.1
[UK] E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 20: The Priest proceeds to tie the Knot.
at tie the knot (v.) under tie, v.
[UK] Van Loan ‘The Indian Sign’ in Collier’s 1 Aug. in Van Loan (2004) 452: Old Pete, rather aldermanic as to paunch, but otherwise fit.
at alderman, n.
[UK] Van Loan ‘The Indian Sign’ in Collier’s 1 Aug. in Van Loan (2004) 450: ‘Don’t quarrel with your bread and butter, dear,’ said Mrs. Cotter.
at quarrel with (one’s) bread and butter (v.) under bread and butter, n.1
[UK] Van Loan ‘The Indian Sign’ in Collier’s 1 Aug. in Van Loan (2004) 450: I’ll never take any more lip from that old stiff [...] I’ve got him buffaloed.
at buffaloed, adj.
[UK] Van Loan ‘The Indian Sign’ in Collier’s 1 Aug. in Van Loan (2004) 450: He crawfished, Milly [...] Crawled right into his hole and pulled it after him.
at crawfish, v.
[UK] H.C. Witwer in Collier’s 17 June 22/4: Are you asking me to go with you so’s to steam Rags Dempster up?
at steam up (v.) under steam, v.1
[UK] D. Runyon in Collier’s 10 Jan. 10/3: I consider this [...] disrespectful, like calling Jewish people mockies, or Heebs, or geese.
at mockie, n.
[UK] D. Runyon in Collier’s 3 Mar. 8: You can have him.
at you can have it!, excl.
[UK] D. Runyon in Collier’s 24 Nov. 8: Ledoux gets the duke by unanimous vote of the officials .
at duke, n.3
[UK] D. Runyon in Collier’s 6 May 9: I never see a prettier little cupcake than this nurse.
at cupcake, n.
[UK] M. Robbins ‘Inside Story of a Girls’ Reformatory’ in Collier’s 30 Oct. 76: A Los Guilucos girl may be a ‘fine chick’ or a ‘vot’. A vot slicks back her hair, wears no lipstick and acts like a boy. She can have an ‘old lady (wife)’.
at old lady, n.
[UK] M. Robbins ‘Inside Story of a Girls’ Reformatory’ in Collier’s 30 Oct. 76: A Los Guilucos girl may be a ‘fine chick’ or a ‘vot’. A vot slicks back her hair, wears no lipstick and acts like a boy. She can have an ‘old lady (wife).’.
at vot, n.
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