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Diprose’s New Sixpenny Comic Song-Book choose

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[UK] ‘Jonathan Jonah Goliah Bang’ in Diprose’s Comic Song Book 12: For every man is half a horse / And half an alligator.
at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
[UK] ‘The Groggy Horse’ in Diprose’s Comic Song Book 7: He mopp’d and broom’d it jollily [...] Till he at least ‘the bucket kick’d’, / And died extremely drunk.
at mop and broom (it) (v.) under mops and brooms, adj.
[UK] ‘The London Fop’ Diprose’s Comic Song Book 61: I’m a different sort of blade, / I’m what folks call a fop.
at blade, n.
[UK] ‘The Groggy Horse’ in Diprose’s Comic Song Book 7: He mopp’d and broom’d it jollily [...] Till he at least ‘the bucket kick’d’, / And died extremely drunk.
at broom, v.
[UK] ‘Pat & his Cat’ Diprose’s Comic Song Book 36: Paddy O’Neil [...] In defiance of tempting by gold, bub or grub, / Wint and pledg’d his bold word to a Prostestant Club.
at bub, n.1
[UK] ‘Things I Do Like To See’ Diprose’s Comic Song Book 24: And I do like to see, I do, and that’s flat, / A chap wear a silk, not a hempen cravat.
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] ‘The Groggy Horse’ in Diprose’s Comic Song Book 7: Once stopping at a brew-house, / The steam of the strong beer / Induced the doctor’s horse to lush, / Which made him rather queer.
at lush, v.
[UK] ‘Irish Love letters’ in Diprose’s Comic Song Book 3: Here’s a letter just sent her by Pad.
at pad, n.3
[UK] ‘Things I Do Like To See’ in Diprose’s Comic Song Book 24: I like to see happy old swaddies and tars.
at swaddy, n.
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