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[UK] T. Hood ‘Sweep’s Complaint’ Poetical Works (1906) 313: There’s the omnibus cads as plies in Cheapside, and keeps calling out Bank and the City.
at cad, n.1
[UK] T. Hood ‘Pompey’s Ghost’ Poetical Works (1906) 558/2: But Pompey’s Spirit could not come / Like spirits that are white, / Because he was a Blackamoor, / And wouldn’t show at night!
at Pompey, n.
[UK] T. Hood ‘Tale of a Trumpet’ Poetical Works (1906) 612/2: Happy the hawbuck, Tom or Harry [...] And happy the foot that can give her a kick.
at hawbuck, n.
[UK] T. Hood ‘Tale of a Trumpet’ Poetical Works (1906) 608/2: The charity chap, / With his muffin-cap.
at muffin, n.1
[UK] T. Hood ‘Tale of a Trumpet’ Poetical Works (1906) 602/1: The fourteen Murphys all pigg’d together.
at pig together (v.) under pig, v.1
[UK] T. Hood ‘Tale of a Trumpet’ Poetical Works (1906) 608/2: The smallest urchin whose tongue could tang, / Shock’d the dame with a volley of slang.
at slang, n.1
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