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Comic Almanack choose

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[UK] Comic Almanack Dec. 37: The Milkmaid, who deals out sky-blue.
at sky blue, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Mar. 11: To Brummagem you’ll go.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack May 216: They grows asham’d of chummy friends, / And makes us hold our jaws.
at chummy, adj.
[UK] Comic Almanack Oct. 34: Being naturally desirous of recovering his footing, a messenger was morrissed off for a supply.
at morris, v.
[UK] Comic Almanack Aug. 25: ‘Och! thunder and praties!’ said he.
at pratie, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Dec. 38: Now let not those who’ve ’scaped my blows believe that I am fickle, / For many a ‘Pure’ who looks demure, I’ve put a rod in pickle, And if I’m here another year their backs I’ll smartly tickle.
at pure, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Dec. 38: Now let not those who’ve ’scaped my blows believe that I am fickle, / For many a ‘Pure’ who looks demure, I’ve put a rod in pickle, And if I’m here another year their backs I’ll smartly tickle.
at rod in piss (n.) under rod, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Oct. 32: Now’s the time by jingo for brewing rare good stingo.
at stingo, n.1
[UK] Comic Almanack Aug. 25: ‘Och! thunder and praties!’ said he.
at thunder and turf! (excl.) under thunder!, excl.
[UK] Comic Almanack Feb. 45: I’d soar aloft on freedom’s wing, / Not care a rush for transfer day.
at not care a rush, v.
[UK] Comic Almanack Feb. 47: Come, buffers and duffers, and dashers and smashers [...] Come, Billingsgate sinners, and cat and dog skinners, / And play up a game to make Decency stare : / A fig for propriety, sense and sobriety! / They never were known at fam’d bartelmy fair.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Dec. 73: To please her will, at fam’d Box Hill, / I took a country box.
at box, n.1
[UK] Comic Almanack Feb. 47: Come, buffers and duffers, and dashers and smashers.
at buffer, n.1
[UK] Comic Almanack Sept. 63: We’d quite a catch in Ha’penny Hatch, / And never paid a farden.
at catch, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Nov. 72: I didn’t much mind her being a strapper, / But I couldn’t endure her terrible clapper.
at clapper, n.1
[UK] Comic Almanack Feb. 47: Come, buffers and duffers, and dashers and smashers.
at dasher, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Apr. 52: A [...] man, suddenly fell down in one of the gin-palaces in St. Giles’s; after having, it was supposed, put an end to his existence, by swallowing a quartern of Deady’s Best.
at deady, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Mar. 49: A sound, that caused’d his flesh to creep, / Startled him up from his downy bed.
at downy, adj.1
[UK] Comic Almanack ‘Slangology’ Jan. 43: I declare there he goes with his eye out-staring everybody.
at there he goes with his eye out! (excl.) under eye, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Mar. 50: [illus. by George Cruikshank; a champagne bottle speaks] I will speak out! – I don’t care a fizz for old Father Mathew or anybody.
at fizz, n.1
[UK] Comic Almanack Jan. 42: At night ere you slip into bed you may sip a can of good flip.
at flip, n.1
[UK] Comic Almanack Nov. 69: War beadles bustling, / Pickpockets hustling.
at hustle, v.
[UK] Comic Almanack Aug. 61: So, Mister Snip, don’t have the hyp, / Nor look so overcast.
at hypo, n.1
[UK] Comic Almanack Sept. 63: Now, Mrs. Dove, my dearest love, / No longer let us jar; / Full well you know that cash is low, / And credit’s under par.
at jar, v.1
[UK] Comic Almanack Sept. 63: And grateful to the Spinning Gin-ny, / That lined my purse with many a guinea.
at spinning jenny, n.2
[UK] Comic Almanack May 54: How he did foam and rage, [...] And call the potboy hog, and dog, and log.
at log, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack Sept. 63: So we by night must take our flight, / For we must shoot the moon!
at shoot the moon (v.) under moon, n.
[UK] Comic Almanack May 54: First she took a very leetle sup, / He fairly swigged it; / And so between them both, alas! / Lady Macbeth and Banquo mopped it up.
at mop (up), v.
[UK] Comic Almanack Mar. 48: While Harlequin half-muzz’d with wine, / Don’t care a rush of Columbine.
at muzzed (adj.) under muz, v.2
[UK] Comic Almanack May 54: Being at the wing, quoth Higgs, aside, ‘Od ’rat it!’ [Ibid.] July 60: warren’s jet is the blacking you choose; / But od ’rabbit that Warren! say I.
at od rot it! under od, n.
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