The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.Collectors have sought 'these priceless chapbooks', but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2020

ISBN

9781000748086

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Editorial Notes

The following abbreviations are used in the notes:

Chambers J. Green, Chambers Slang Dictionary (Edinburgh: Chambers, 2009).
Collins Collins English Dictionary, 6th edn (Glasgow: Harper Collins, 2003).
Green's J. Green, Green's Dictionary of Slang, 3 vols (London: Chambers, 2010).
OED Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 8 th edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009).
SE Standard English.
Webster’s N. Webster, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co.,1913).

The Convivialist

1. Tothill Street, Westminster, near St James’s Park.

2. Face. Chambers.

3. Archaic for ‘kiss’. OED.

4. Mackerel, sometimes abbreviated to mack, also means pimp (from French maquereau). Chambers.

5. Leg (from French jambe).

6. Fight or thrash (suggestive of the mill’s grinding something into bits). Chambers, at ‘mill’, verb 1.

7. Typical substitution of ‘v’ for ‘w’ in imitations of early nineteenth-century Cockney speech.

8. Brick dust was used as an abrasive cleaner, but could also be used as a cheap form of rouge for the cheeks.

9. Prison (after the Quad at Newgate). Chambers.

10. ‘Tip the dad’ means to shake hands. Chambers, at ‘daddle’ in phrases.

11. Donnybrook Fair, on the outskirts of Dublin, gained a reputation for drunkenness and was banned in 1855.

12. I noticed she was looking.

13. Pipe can also mean penis, and the double entendre is obvious here.

14. Bright red (French).

15. In Greek mythology, Morpheus is the son of sleep, and god of dreams.

16. From the late seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, kennel could mean vagina. Chambers, at ‘kennel’, noun 1.

17. A post-Homeric legend concerning Helen of Troy.

18. Theseus abducted Helen from Sparta and put her in the care of Aethra at Aphidnae.

19. Tyndareus, a king of Sparta and, according to Homer, father of Castor and Pollux.

20. Castor and Pollux invaded Attica (rather than Gretna) and carried off Helen and Aethra.

21. Another king of Sparta; he married Helen.

22. Toasting, or clinking glasses and drinking. Chambers, at ‘hob nob’, mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries.

23. A dandy, a man who uses perfume (jasmine).

24. Alcohol, originally rum.

25. Damme, a euphemism for damn.

26. Lay a leg on = have sexual intercourse.

27. Perhaps not this old, but the siege of Troy did last for ten years.

28. Glen Omra in the parish of Killokennedy (Cill O’gCinnéide), County Clare.

29. In Greek mythology, Hymen was the god of marriage (and a son of Apollo).

30. The spellings ‘wur’ (were), ‘pratty’ (pretty) and ‘some’at’ (somewhat) give a clear indication that this is to be sung with a rustic accent.

31. Stare wide-eyed, implying docile adoration.

32. Mutton can mean vagina.

33. Feet.

34. Narrow room.

35. Gave information of no interest.

36. Of a sudden.

37. Rib can mean wife, after Eve’s creation from Adam’s rib. The late twentieth-century feminist magazine Spare Rib (1972-93) alluded...

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