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‘The Marriage of Dumpling Bet’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 22: ‘I’m tired of this here flaring up,’ Bet cried — / ‘I’m drunk as a f—t’.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
‘The Marriage of Dumpling Bet’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 22: ‘I’m tired of this here flaring up,’ Bet cried — / ‘I’m drunk as a f—t’. ‘The Blowing’s Catalogue’ in Funny Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 45: Mother Cummins [...] ‘Cock of the walk’, as abbess lived, / In Dyott Street for years.at abbess, n.
‘The Christening of Little Joey’ in Corinthian in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 45: My man is hobbled upon the leg for three years on board Duncan Campbel[l]’s floating academy.at Campbell’s academy, n.
‘True Principles of Milling’ in Corinthian in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 57: First to frighten your man by your chaffing ne’er try, / Tho’ a few greens may laugh, still it is all my eye.at all my eye, phr.
‘Dolly Dumpling’ in Tommarroo Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 348: When thy dot-and-go-one limbs bend ten times more bandy, / And hunched is thy carcase behind and before.at dot and go one, v.
‘The Marriage of Dumpling Bet’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 23: She fell down the dunniken — over tip!at arse over tip under arse, n.
‘A Game at All Fours’ in Convivialist in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 20: John and Susan below, get at push-pin for love.at play at push-pin (v.) under play (at)..., v.
‘A Game at All Fours’ in Convivialist in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 20: My Lady an excellent supper devours, / Then teazes her spouse for a game at All Fours.at play at all fours (v.) under play (at)..., v.
‘The Marriage of Dumpling Bet’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 23: All down the back slums of St Giles, they say, / All down the back slums where danger lurked.at back slums (n.) under back, adj.2
‘A Game at All Fours’ in Convivialist in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 20: Some there who, I wish, were hung as high as hammon, / Are fond I am told of the vile game Back-gammon.at play backgammon (v.) under backgammon, n.
‘Dick Hellfinch’ in Rummy Cove’s Delight in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 105: And while he shin’d, she sack’d the bag.at bag, n.1
‘Tommarroo’ in Tommarroo Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 339: He bore a blue bag in his claw, / To see as if his trade was law.at priest of the blue bag, n.
‘Dick Hellfinch’ in Rummy Cove’s Delight in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 105: And while he shin’d, she sack’d the bag.at sack the bag (v.) under bag, n.1
‘The Ballet Girl’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 27: A policeman came and said to me, / ‘You mustn’t show these frolics; / It isn’t right that you should thus / Expose to all your [blank space]’.at ballocks, n.
‘Mr Pluck, the Leadenhall Butcher’ in Funny Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 43: Then down on his marrow-bones begg’d for relief, / For ah! he was dying to be in her beef.at be in a woman’s beef (v.) under beef, n.1
‘The lottery of Wives’ in Tommarroo Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 338: They were the wives of honest men, / But not their better halves.at better half, n.
‘The Female Tunnel’ in Funny Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 49: An old maid, Biddy Nevercome, who lived somewhere near Rotherhithe.at biddy, n.2
‘The Christening of Little Joey’ in Corinthian in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 45: [as 1789].at birdlime, adj.
‘’Mid Young Whores & Gallows She’s’ in Out-and-Outer in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 141: ’Mid young whores and gallows she’, tho’ we may roam, / To seek for a sly bit, there’s no place like home.at bit, n.1
‘The Blanket Hornpipe’ in Rake’s Budget in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 76: Some may talk of a rel, / Or a country dance may try’t, / But the blanket hornpipe, oh, / It is supreme delight!at blanket hornpipe (n.) under blanket, n.
‘Wednesbury Cocking’ in Out-and-Outer in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 131: B—t you, if you don’t hold your rattle.at blast!, excl.
‘Blue Ruin’ in Tommarroo Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 348: There’s nothing in life, like a drop of ‘blue ruin,’ / To drive the blue devils away.at blue devils, n.
‘The Knight of the New Iron Goose’ in Rummy Cove’s Delight in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 99: The ribbon blue her drunk Knight flash’d .at blue ribbon, n.
‘Jerry Abershaw’s Will’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 16: This popper cured the charley! vhen we crack’d the doctor’s ken / Vith blue boluses he never did digest O.at blue bolus (n.) under blue, adj.1
‘Love in a Watch Box’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 11: They met with a Charley, ‘Old boy, here’s bob / If in your box you’ll let’s do a job’.at bob, n.3
‘Black Sam’ in Out-and-Outer in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 142: The next morn when I opened my eyes, / Then the Pavier no more could he stand, / So I drew my arm over his thighs, / To assist the old chap with my hand.at old boy, n.
‘The Gape-Hole’ in Funny Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 47: Come now, my lads, / Fork out your brads.at brad, n.1
‘I Wanted — I Could Not Tell What’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 6: At last a brisk husband I got — / [...] / He gave me — I must not tell what.at brisk, adj.
‘The Amiable Family’ in Fal-Lal Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 8: On our door you’ll see wrote, / Those names I here quote — / ‘Mr Balls’ — ‘Mrs Mary Brown’ — ‘Rogers!’.at brown, n.
‘The Masqueraders’ in Corinthian in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 42: Now nobles and gents, Ing your counterfeits out,/ I’ll take brums or cut ones, and thank you to boot.at brum, n.1
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