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[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 218: He got a pocky blow with a French Cowle-staffe and gave up the Ghost.
at blow with a French faggot-stick, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 93: Shee makes her husband a very Asse, an Abram, and a Ninnihammer [...] though shee be counted a Whoore or a light woman.
at abram, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 52: Those young gill-flurts, who trick themselves up like a Bartholmew-faire Babie.
at bartholomew baby, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 98: I will be my owne Carver, and not stand to the allowance of such a Beetleheaded Cuckoe.
at beetle-brain (n.) under beetle, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 96: I am no Goose to be Crow-trodden by such a Buzzardly Gull as thou art.
at buzzard, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 74: It lyes with you [...] with the Clapper of your tongue to ring him a perpetual peale.
at clapper, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 221: I made him weare an invisible Cuckooes Feather in his Cap.
at cuckoo, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 94: I am married to a grumbling [...] Dunghill, a Cullion, a common Town Bull.
at cullion, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture A4: I know you have heard of a Curtaine Lecture before now.
at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 37: Out you Dosser-head, shallow-brain’d companion.
at dosserhead, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 36: Every durty draggletail Ioane, that came with nothing to their husbands but the cloathes on their backes.
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 131: They may make you drink, and so bid you farewell; and thus you have Iacke Drummes entertainment for all your money.
at Jack Drum’s entertainment, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 120: What, are you awake, good man Foxe-catcher: are you in any better humour than you were last night.
at fox-catcher (n.) under fox, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 213: The Marriage was ended and Giblets were joyn’d.
at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 36: Thou art [...] not worthy to carry guts to a bear.
at carry guts to a bear (v.) under gut, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 123: I marvaile whither you went, or in what new hole you had entertainment.
at hole, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 205: She called for her Hum Bottle and kindly dranke to them.
at hum, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 98: I wish thee no more to trouble thy foolish Jolthead with studying to curbe or bridle me.
at jolterhead, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 90: Reeling up and downe the streete, and making Indentures.
at make indentures with one’s legs (v.) under leg, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 93: Shee makes her husband a very Asse, an Abram, and a Ninnihammer [...] though shee be counted a Whoore or a light woman.
at light woman (n.) under light, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 218: The reverend grave Iudges [...] made him looke and see poerfectly through an Inch Boord, for he was mounted on a Market-day on the Pillory.
at look through an inch/ a two-inch board (v.) under look, v.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 29: You a Husband: you a Coxcombe, a meere Lubby, a Moon-calf, one that hath more haire than wit.
at lubber, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 97: I am ashamed to walk around with such a Lubberly Lout.
at lubberly, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 19: I will have a Husband that shall alwayes be provided like a Souldier, never not with standing [...] with his Match lighted and cocked bolt upright, and ready to do execution.
at match, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 36: You, you drunken sot, you pisse-pot, know not when you have sufficient; thus to come home reeling and staggering.
at pisspot, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 29: Out you Slabber Choppes, go trudge with thy fellow Hob, and drive the cart.
at slobber-chops (n.) under slobber, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 19: I will have a Husband that shall alwayes be provided like a Souldier, never not with standing [...] with his Match lighted and cocked bolt upright, and ready to do execution.
at stand, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 95: There’s not a Bawd, Quean, Punk, Tib, Trash, Trull or Trully-bub, Oyster-wife, or Kitchen-stuffe Slut, but lives a merrier life than I doe.
at trullibub, n.
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