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[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Patrick O’Row’ in Collection of Songs II 53: Let the Spaniards come on when they please, / Devil burn me we’d teach them a thing or two.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Soldier Dick’ Collection of Songs II 81: What argufies who stands and falls.
at argufy, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Negro and his Banjer’ in Collection of Songs II 88: One Negro, wi my banjer, / Me from Jenny come, / Wid cunning yiei / Me savez spy / De buckra world one hum. [Ibid.] 89: And so though Negro black for true, / He black in buckra country too.
at backra, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Meum & Tuum’ Collection of Songs II 166: Why you stupid old big wig.
at bigwig, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Irish-Italian Song’ Collection of Songs II 97: Astonish’d John cries out bravo! encore! / And swears all English music’s a vile bore.
at bore, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Meum and Tuum’ in Collection of Songs II 166: Then from such botheration in pity release us.
at botheration, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Patrick O’Row’ in Collection of Songs II 52: I’m a devil of a fellow for fame / Why I’m bottom like any game cock sir.
at bottom, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Buxom Nan’ in Collection of Songs II 72: Tant masted all, to see who’s tallest, / Breastworks, top gant-sails, and a fan; / Mesmate, cried I, more sail than ballast, / Ah still give me my buxom Nan.
at breastworks, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Jack in his Element’ Collection of Songs II 65: We works, and loves, and fights the foe / And drinks the generous bub.
at bub, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Joys of the Country’ Collection of Songs II 66: Let bucks and let bloods to praise London agree.
at buck, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Life’s a Pun’ Collection of Songs II 169: Men play on our passions to turn us to fools, / And make puns and quibbles, that we may make bulls.
at pull a bull (v.) under bull, n.2
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Lucky Escape’ in Collection of Songs II 129: I liked the jolly tars, I liked bumbo and flip.
at bumbo, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Waggoner’ Collection of Songs II 184: How many ways in London town / They dresses a calf’s head.
at calf’s head (n.) under calf, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Is’t My Storey’ in Collection of Songs I 92: I’ve sat up all night in the morning, / ’Mongst black legs, and coggers, and pigeons, and noodles.
at cogger, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘A Drop of the Creature’ Collection of Songs II 46: Three lads though crazy grown and crank.
at crank, adj.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘A Drop of the Creature’ Collection of Songs II 46: My joy and delight / Was, on Saturday night, / A drop of the creature to swig.
at drop of the creature (n.) under creature, the, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Jack in his Element’ Collection of Songs II 65: She cut, I chased.
at cut, v.2
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Dustman’ in Collection of Songs II 77: I’m dashing Dick the dustman.
at dashing, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Greenwich Pensioner’ in Collection of Songs I 172: Sav’d from Davy’s locker, / We put to sea again.
at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Soldier’s Last Retreat’ Collection of Songs II 153: I [...] Swear, and all that, / Nor ever dread / A broken head / Where the cause of strife’s a doxy.
at doxy, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Happy Jerry’ Collection of Songs II 61: The best of smarts and flashy dames / I’ve carried in my wherry.
at flashy, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Lucky Escape’ Collection of Songs II 129: I liked the jolly tars, I liked bumbo and flip.
at flip, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Saturday Night at Sea’ in Collection of Songs I 188: Cried honest Tom, my Peg I’ll toast, / A frigate neat and trim.
at frigate, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Poor Tom’ Collection of Songs I 231: For though his body’s under hatches, / His soul has gone aloft.
at under (the) hatches, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Virtue of Drunkeness’ in Collection of Songs II 70: If strong ipse dixit true wisdom implies, / The man that is drunk is like Solomon wise.
at ipsydinxy, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘True English Sailor’ in Collection of Songs II 115: Jack dances and sings, and is always content.
at jack, n.5
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Leap Year’ Collection of Songs II 142: Every Jack will soon find out a Jill.
at jack, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Smoke the Beau’ Collection of Songs II 156: The belles put on jazies, / And the beaux sported now their own hair.
at jasey, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘The Maid of the Skylight’ in Collection of Songs I 117: Pris’ner, judge, and jew-bail ’gainst each other did squeeze.
at Jew bail (n.) under Jew, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin ‘Leap Year’ in Collection of Songs II 142: Every Jack will soon find out a Jill.
at jill, n.1
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