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[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 39 154/3: The Lady Abbess of St Giles’s, Mother Cummins, began life as a street-walker .
at abbess, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 65 22/1: Fashionable and accommodating hotels at the west-end, where the simple operation of — [i.e. fucking] becomes a science.
at accommodation house, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 48 192/2: [US speaker] ‘I do think he [i.e. an actor] piled the agony a little high in the last scene’.
at put on an/the agony (v.) under agony, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 7 27/3: They all [...] fell pell mell, bare a—d, head over heels to the veyr bottom of the stairs.
at bare-arsed (adj.) under arse, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 22 85/3: If [...] I should never [...] see you more, would you — kiss my —?
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 18 72/3: Lucy is angry at our not inserting her article. We have only to remark that she would refuse to insert an article herself if she found it so threadbare and damaged.
at article, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 39 156/2: She cocked her eye [and] exclaimed— ‘Ax my eye, you pig’.
at ask my...!, excl.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 14 54/2: And jumping up, quite startl’d, from the grass, / She saw that monster, Mrs Bunt’s huge ass.
at ass, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 27 105/1: He flattered himself she was come-at-able.
at come at, v.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 36 : .
at play at all fours (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 42 172/3: french prints highly coloured [...] bachelor’s buttons Eight Out and Out Facetious Prints. Price, One Shilling.
at bachelor’s buttons (n.) under bachelor, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 9 34/3: [A] syllabus of the names of the chief culls, or letches [...] The Gomorrah Minuet, or Back-door March.
at backdoor march (n.) under back-door, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 15 58/2: [T]hough he were blear-eyed, baker-legged, or tut-mouthed.
at baker-kneed, adj.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 12 48/3: [advert] merry chaunter — The Plumber’s Ball Cock.
at ballcock, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 9 32/3: [M]aking that monster the ‘beast with two backs’.
at make the beast with two backs (v.) under beast, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 1 3/3: My mother pleaded her belly [...] being quick with child.
at belly plea (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 21 84/3: Leave your money at home with your wife and [...] the naughty little ‘dicky birds’ will never interfere with you.
at dicky-bird, n.1
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 1 4/3: the monk by Lewis [...] [S]uppressed on account of its luscious pictures of the licentiousness and debauchery of the Black-coated Gentry.
at black coat (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 12 48/3: [advert] tuzzy muzzy songster — Lucy and Kitty’s Black Jokes.
at black joke, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 12 48/3: [advert] Merry chaunter — Little Black Thing.
at black thing (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 14 54/2: Is shock’d to find Miss Bunn, when on the grass, / Was so alarm’d at seeing of my ass / [...] / The harmless creature is entirely blind / And makes no noise.
at blind cheeks (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 16 62/1: For some time past the bloods of Lincolns Inn and the Temple have been much attracted [etc].
at blood, n.1
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 10 38/1: The boarders of these houses are obliged to [...] decoy any straggling young man who may reel in from the tavern.
at boarder, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 28 112/2: [H]er garments [...] rose [...] far above the lady’s bomb-battery.
at bomb-battery (n.) under bomb, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 18 70/2: He’s got his hand upon my bonnet.
at bonnet, n.1
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 27 105/1: Woman is a book, and often found / Much better in the sheets than when she’s bound!.
at bookbinder’s wife (n.) under book, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 1 4/3: We will speedily tell her whether he be thinking of a wedding-ring or a broomstick.
at broomstick marriage, n.
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 7 28/2: My Nance as such shinin’ highs [i.e. eyes] / And bubbys wot can never tire.
at bubby, n.1
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 9 35/3: No sooner had the valet finished [...] than master [...] saluted his partner [...] Thus a buttered bun, which would be too rich for a delicate stomach.
at buttered bun, n.1
[UK] Peeping Tom (London) 44 175/2: A young fellow being burnt by a nymph [...] saying he had lost all he had by fire!
at burn, v.
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