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[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ Fancy 41: The backy-box of brown japan.
at bacca-box (n.) under bacca, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 42: And Bankside beauties have I seen, / Sit drinking rum in little boats.
at Bankside lady, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Lines to Philip Samson’ in Fancy 88: Moulsey, whose turf is the sweetest to tread on, / Candidly owns you’re a good bit of stuff.
at bit of stuff, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Lines to Philip Samson’ in Fancy 88: Go back to Brummagem, while you’ve a head on! / For bread from the Fancy is light weight enough.
at bread, n.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Stanzas to Kate’ in Fancy [Gloss.] n.p.: Brown, porter; heavy brown, stout.
at brown, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Stanzas to Kate’ in Fancy 84: Oh, never again, / I’ll cultivate light blue, or brown inebriety.
at brown, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Lines to Philip Samson’ in Fancy 88: Go back to Brummagem! go back to Brummagem! / Youth of that ancient and halfpenny town!
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘The Fields of Tothill’ in Fancy 63: For his two rooms are naked, dun and muggy, / And somewhat tatter’d, and exceeding buggy!
at buggy, adj.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘The Fields of Tothill’ in Fancy 73: And eyes are things that may be bung’d, or blacken’d.
at bunged up, adj.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Lines to Philip Samson’ in Fancy 90: Be content that you’ve beat Dolly Smith, and been chaunted.
at chanted, adj.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Sonnet’ in Fancy 93: I’ve left the Fives-Court rush, – the flash – the rally, / The noise of ‘Go it, Jack,’ – the stop – the blow, / The shout – the chattering hit – the check – the sally.
at chatterer, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 17: I, to win a shady man, / Must do as I did do; / Cock my eyes, and so trepan—.
at cock one’s eye (v.) under cock, v.4
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 46: He’s gone – how very muddy some folks die! / He’s for the cold meat cart, and so am I.
at cold meat cart (n.) under cold meat, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 22: Trader no more; he banishe’d pall, and urn, / And nail, and glove, and cut the whole concern.
at cut, v.4
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ Fancy 5: Montgomery is no dab at a bull-bait.
at dab, n.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Gloss.’ in Fancy 109: damp – To wet with heavy brown, or stark-naked.
at damp, v.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 26: Give us a keg, we’ll pull a little Deady.
at deady, n.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 16: Would Aeneas Tims were night, / I would be his Dido!
at dido, n.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Stanzas to Kate’ in Fancy 85: Mufflers I’ll carefully pull / O’er my knuckles hereafter, to make them well bred; / To mollify digs in the kidney with wool.
at dig, n.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 16: I’m still starvations’s daughter: / Victuals here, and victuals here, / Make me quite a sly doe.
at doe, n.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ Fancy 89: [note] He doubles up an opponent [...] as easily as though he were picking a flower or pinching a girl’s cheek.
at double up, v.2
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘The Fields of Tothill’ in Fancy 62: Southey would put them into India quickly, / Make them amenable to wooden gods. [...] There’s something grand tho’ in Hindoo mythology, / Yet what to them or me is dusk Theology.
at dusky, adj.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ Fancy 29: No subjects mar my trade – for none can die; / And buryings without bodies are – my eye!
at my eye(s)!, excl.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 16: I have got a faggot here, / Aye, and quite a bad one; Were I married. p’rhaps my dear / Might think that he too had one.
at faggot, n.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ Fancy 28: Your royal intellect is in eclipse; / The ruin you’ve drawn down upon your lips, / Has made it rather foggy.
at foggy, adj.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘Sonnet’ in Fancy 93: The noise of ‘Go it Jack,’ – the stop – the blow.
at go it!, excl.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ Fancy 28: To my mind, / Her Majesty with grief or grog is blind!
at grog, n.1
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ Fancy 29: You then love’ Little, Mrs. Tims; and read / His ‘hot-press’d lyrics’ on cold nights a-bed.
at hot, adj.
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 34: Oh, lovely chum! / You, or your son, have told bouncing hum!
at hum, n.2
[UK] ‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 18: That single breasted coat, that sweet snub nose, Those inexpressibles: I know the clothes. [Ibid.] 23: Left to the comfort of a tomtit strain, / Pluming my inexpressibles .
at inexpressibles, n.
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