billy-go-fister

[sagehen]

>"A hard blow with the fist." Esp. to the abdomen? I believe this obsolete
>term is in HDAS but I've seen it rarely:
>
>  1863 _Hooley's Oper House Songster_ (N.Y.: Dick & FitzGerald) 62: One
>Billy-go-fister I gave,/ Which caused her to grunt and to grin agin.
>
>  Now what rhymes with "grin agin"?...
>
>  JL
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There was an old man named Michael Finnegan
He grew whiskers on his chinnegan
The wind ame along & blew them in ag'in
Poor old Michael Finnegan.Begin ag'in.

Could "Billy-go" allude to billy goat?
AM

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