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Both Sides of the Gutter choose

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[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 12: What suppose, your souls? When the M—q—s crosses de herring-brook, it will be all a—e-about, in a crack.
at arse about face under arse, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 10: I’m de boy [...] dat bid de English Parliament kiss our a—ses.
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 11: Five balloon swarthies to de boy takes de heels from under de lad of wax on t’ther side of the Green.
at balloon, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 10: By de hokey, I falls a ballyragging F—d, spits in de Volunteers countenance, and corks de newspapers gobs.
at ballyrag, v.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 11: I lugs out my cly.
at cly, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 12: And its den, huzza for de sweet Liberty! / And huzza for de boys in a string / [...] / Huzza! boys, your souls to de gallows.
at dangle in a Tyburn string (v.) under dangle, v.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 8: This reptile is very much given to houses of office, and no gold-finder wades through the dirty work of those places with such enjoyment as the Rat.
at gold-finder (n.) under gold, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 15: A fat, swaggering Greenhorn.
at greenhorn, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 12: What suppose, your souls? When the M—q—s crosses de herring-brook, it will be all a—e-about, in a crack.
at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 10: By de hokey, I falls a ballyragging F—d, spits in de Volunteers countenance.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 10: Dere’s ne’er a boy [...] dat does not love kelter better dan de belly-ach.
at kelter, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 11: Five balloon swarthies to de boy takes de heels from under de lad of wax on t’ther side of the Green.
at lad of wax, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 12: He makes a sally up to de Minister’s mazard.
at mazard, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 10: Den your souls to the gallows! when I fobb’d my mocus’s.
at mokus, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 12: Tip him a sup of de naked, to coak de sweat off his eye-brows.
at stark-naked, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 11: His speech in his fist, and his spectacles on his nob.
at nob, n.1
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 12: Pad it over, Lodge, your soul, to de Post-office.
at pad, v.1
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 16: I have led my ragamuffins where they have been pepper’d.
at pepper, v.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 11: He pops in his phiz [...] And tips ould Charkley de wink.
at phiz, n.1
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 10: Huzza for Jack Prancer and de ready-rhino!
at ready, n.
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 10: Huzza for Jack Prancer and de ready-rhino!
at rhino, n.1
[Ire] Both Sides of the Gutter part II 11: Bad luck to them spalpeens from de country!
at spalpeen, n.
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