And she'll do all a turfwoman can to piff the business on
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- turfman: (1) a devotee of horse racing; (2) one who studies fine grasses
- piff-paff: (German) bang-bang
- Piff Paff: a celebrated aria from Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots; the aria, which is based on an old Huguenot battle song, is sung by the Protestant Marcel; it contains onomatopoeic words such as piff, paff, which represent gunfire
- puff → following vesta, which suggests an eternal flame, this and the following phrases seem to refer to a woman tending a fire with a bellows that create "puffs" of air to "puff the blaziness on"; the subsequent references to cooked eggs suggest a cooking stove → compare this with FW 003.09-10 nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to