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Kidderminster Poetry

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Coarse doggerel verse, like the coarse woollen manufacture of Kidderminster. The term was first used by Shenstone, who applied it to a Mr. C., of Kidderminster.

“Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff;

And I must own youʹve measured out enough.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Kiak-Kiak (god of gods)
Kick (A)
Kick Over the Traces (To)
Kick the Beam (To)
Kick the Bucket (To)
Kick Up a Row (To)
Kickshaws
Kicksy-wicksy
Kid (A)
Kid (A)
Kidderminster Poetry
Kidnapper (A)
Kidney
Kilda (St.)
Kildare
Kildare’s Holy Fane
Kilkenny
Kilkenny Cats
Kill (A)
Kill Two Birds with One Stone (To)
Killed by Inches