1736 Canting Dictionary / D / DISMAL-Ditty [thing]
a Psalm at the Gallows.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Dismal Ditty in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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