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The Buck’s Delight choose

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[UK] C. Dibdin ‘She Cannot Tell What’ in Buck’s Delight 40: For mamma’s wise precepts she cares not a jot.
at not care a jot, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Dicky Ditto’ Buck’s Delight 74: Adzooks, old crusty, / Why so rusty, / Stupid queer and mumpy?
at adzooks!, excl.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Life’s a Bubble’ Buck’s Delight 11: For if life is a flower, any blockhead may tell, / If you’d have it look fresh, you must moisten it well.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The General Opinion’ Buck’s Delight 30: Our Mayor, Lord bless him, whose former delight, / Was to make a day’s work of being boozy at night.
at boozy, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Rake at Large’ Buck’s Delight 26: I’ve a purse well stock’d with brass.
at brass, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Tight Little Peter’ in Buck’s Delight 30: Zounds, I’m the clean thing, / Tight boy, little Peter.
at clean, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘All for the Chink’ Buck’s Delight 28: My dove, my duck, my angel bright, / Without your cash your kissing won’t do!
at duck, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Bonny Kitty’ in Buck’s Delight 53: They trick us poor Tars of our gold; / And when the fly gypsies have finger’d the money, / The bag they give poor Jack to hold.
at finger, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Tight Little Peter’ Buck’s Delight 30: Gad, we’ll have rare fun!
at gad!, excl.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘All for the Chink’ Buck’s Delight 28: Who’d refuse a lad of my inches [...] But wag-tails lur’d are by gold-finches.
at goldfinch (n.) under gold, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Dicky Ditto’ in Buck’s Delight 74: O! I’ll hop the twig, sir.
at hop the twig, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘All for the Chink’ Buck’s Delight 28: Who’d refuse a lad of my inches, / So sprightly, fightly, near, complete?
at inch, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Bacchus’s Feast’ Buck’s Delight 39: Then reeling away they all rambled in quest / Of drunkards and jilts of the town.
at jilt, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Recital of the Tombs’ Buck’s Delight 92: These once were bonny dames, and tho’ there were no coaches then, / Yet could they jog their tails themselves, or get them – jogg’d by the men!
at jog, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘My Lady’s Kettle’ in Buck’s Delight 50: Tho’ tight he work’d, spite of his soul / There still remain’d a swinging hole, / A hole in my lady’s kettle!
at kettle, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Dicky Ditto’ in Buck’s Delight 74: Adzooks, old crusty, / Why so rusty, / Stupid queer and mumpy? / Egad if you don’t mind your manners, / Somebody will lump you.
at lump, v.2
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘A Little Mellow’ Buck’s Delight 5: For ev’ry night we’ll merry be, / When we’re a little mellow.
at mellow, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Dicky Ditto’ Buck’s Delight 74: Noodle, nooble, ugly muns!
at muns, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘A Bacchanalian’ Buck’s Delight 9: ’Till for right Nantz we pawn’d to France / Our dearest reputation.
at nantz, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Jolly Fustian-Cutter’ Buck’s Delight 7: The stake he secures ’tis but ill-gotten pelf.
at pelf, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘A Bacchanalian’ in Buck’s Delight 9: With a cup of Brunswick mum, / He tripp’d from off the perch.
at drop off the perch (v.) under perch, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Molly Maybush’ Buck’s Delight 37: Blythe Johnny [...] To me presented puss the hare, / That o’er the wild theme ran so fleet.
at puss, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Recital of the Tombs’ Buck’s Delight 91: Here lies William of Valence, a right good Earl of Pembroke.
at right, adv.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Tight Little Peter’ Buck’s Delight 30: I’m the lad so neat and natty, / S’bobs, girls, but I’ll be at ye.
at ’sbobs!, excl.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Sa Whack’ Buck’s Delight 66: To be sure in three minutes the taef would not feel / O’er his sconce a tight bit of shelaly.
at sconce, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Jack the Guinea Pig’ in Buck’s Delight 75: The sailor, fearless, goes to sleep, / Or takes his watch most cheerly. / Boozing here, snoozing there.
at snooze, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Bonny Kitty’ Buck’s Delight 53: Our voyage was a spanker, / And bran new was every sail.
at spanker, n.2
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘My Lady’s Kettle’ Buck’s Delight 50: Tho’ tight he work’d, spite of his soul / There still remain’d a swinging hole, / A hole in my lady’s kettle!
at swinging, adj.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Bonny Kitty’ in Buck’s Delight 54: I [...] Swore my wishes were all at an end; / That I’d sported away all my looking dollars, / And borrow’d my togs of a friend.
at togs, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘All for the Chink’ in Buck’s Delight 28: Who’d refuse a lad of my inches [...] But wag-tails lur’d are by gold-finches.
at wagtail, n.
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