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‘Low Ambition’ Poetical Vagaries 12: His voice had broken to a gruffish squeak; He had grown blear-eyed, baker-kneed, and gummy.at baker-kneed, adj.
‘Low Ambition’ Poetical Vagaries 12: His voice had broken to a gruffish squeak; He had grown blear-eyed, baker-kneed, and gummy. ‘Two Parsons’ in Poetical Vagaries 113: Adam and Eve [...] They sought the Fig, To cool their blushes, with its banging leaves.at banging, adj.
‘The Lady of the Wreck’ Poetical Vagaries 61: Drink, Paddies, drink drink to the Lady so shining! / While flowret shall open, and bog-trotter dig.at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
‘Two Parsons’ Poetical Vagaries 137: In a brimmer, Mother Church was tasted: With jokes, and winks.at brimmer, n.
‘The Lady of the Wreck’ Poetical Vagaries 52: ‘If the Bucket come not down,’ / ‘Soon shall I be doom’d to kick it.’.at kick the bucket, v.
‘Two Parsons’ in Poetical Vagaries 125: The Squire for neighbours had a dread, And always ‘cut the natives,’ as he said.at cut, v.4
‘Lady of the Wreck’ in Poetical Vagaries 100: Huntsman, snore!—for up thou’rt done* [...] *The modern phrase, to be done up, has descended to us from the Slang of the ancients.at done, adj.
‘Two Parsons’ Poetical Vagaries 128: ‘Come, duck!’ he cried, ‘make haste, and dry the Shirt.’.at duck, n.1
‘Low Ambition’ Poetical Vagaries 12: Though he had’nt been too hoarse to speak, He was too ugly, even, for a dumby.at dummy, n.1
‘Two Parsons’ in Poetical Vagaries 115: What would become of all the fie-fie Ladies? And all the Proprietors of paw-paw Houses?at fie-fie, adj.
‘Two Parsons’ in Poetical Vagaries 136: All the Ladies of high Ton, and Taste, Titter’d, and turn’d aside.at high-tone, n.
‘An Ode to We; A Hackney’d Critick’ Poetical Vagaries 12: Master Daw, that chubby, stupid hound.at hound, n.
‘Two Parsons’ in Poetical Vagaries 136: These wooden Wits, these Quizzers, Queerers, Smokers. These practical, nothing-so-easy Jokers; [...] Who talk with fluency mere pun, and jingle.at jingle, n.
‘The Lady of the Wreck’ in Poetical Vagaries 70: ‘O! butter’d egg! best eaten with a spoon,’ / ‘I bid your yelk [sic] glide down my throat’s red lane’.at red lane (n.) under lane, n.1
‘The Lady of the Wreck’ Poetical Vagaries 104: The muzzy Porter, Con Macguire, Roused his blown carcase from the fire.at muzzy, adj.
‘The Lady of the Wreck’ in Poetical Vagaries 60: That’s a Potato, plain— / Long may your root every Irishman know! / Pats have long stuck to it.at Pat, n.
‘Two Parsons’ in Poetical Vagaries 115: What would become of all the fie-fie Ladies? And all the Proprietors of paw-paw Houses? And all the learned Proctors,—whose grave trade is Parting, from bed and board, the paw-paw Spouses?at paw-paw, adj.
‘Low Ambition’ Poetical Vagaries 13: The Prompter’s Boy, a pickled, thoughtless knave.at pickled, adj.
‘Two Parsons’ Poetical Vagaries 136: They did’nt quiz too much at the beginning.at quiz, v.
‘Two Parsons’ Poetical Vagaries 136: These wooden Wits, these Quizzers, Queerers, Smokers.at smoke, v.1
‘Low Ambition’ in Poetical Vagaries 11: At three years old, squab, chubby-cheek’d and stupid.at squabby, adj.
Poetical Vagaries (2nd edn) 129: He rumps us quite, and won’t salute us [F&H].at rump, v.
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