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Africanus Bluebeard choose

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[US] W. Reeve ‘Tippy Bob’ song in Bluebeard [pantomime] I am sure I’m the thing, / Nay I wish I may swing, / If I an’t now a nice natty crop.
at crop, n.1
[US] W. Reeve ‘Tippy Bob’ song in Bluebeard [pantomime] But it’s the tippy,— the go, — the diddle, — the wish.
at diddle, n.3
[US] W. Reeve ‘Tippy Bob’ song in Bluebeard [pantomime] I’m [...] the knowingest smart of the town.
at knowing, adj.
[US] W. Reeve ‘Tippy Bob’ song in Bluebeard [pantomime] I’m [...] the knowingest smart of the town.
at smart, n.
[US] W. Reeve ‘Tippy Bob’ song in Bluebeard [pantomime] My name is Tippy Bob / With a watch in each fob / I am sure I’m the thing.
at thing, the, n.
[US] W. Reeve ‘Tippy Bob’ song in Bluebeard [pantomime] My name is Tippy Bob / With a watch in each fob / I am sure I’m the thing.
at tippybob (n.) under tippy, n.
[US] F. Dumont Africanus Blue Beard 5: I’ll get rid of this mother-in-law’s gab.
at gab, n.2
[US] F. Dumont Africanus Blue Beard 7: Have the kindness to keep your jaw to yourself.
at jaw, n.
[US] F. Dumont Africanus Blue Beard 11: Oh! that old villain! that old Mormon! He’s got forty wives hung up in that Blue Chamber.
at Mormon, n.
[US] F. Dumont Africanus Blue Beard 10: What do you mean by ‘shaking’ my daughter?
at shake, v.
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