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The Reformer Exposing the Vices of the Age in several characters choose

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[UK] N. Ward Reformer 85: As Inamour’d [...] as an Old Frizel-Pated S-t, the Bum-Firker, is of the Sodomite Stationer.
at bum-firker (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] ‘An Amorous Maid’ in N. Ward Reformer 28: Ads Body! What means this? Nay fie for Shame, / Nay stand away, nay fie, away; I vow ou ayre too [sic] blame!
at ads, n.
[UK] N. Ward Reformer 37: [A] Young Awkard, Rude Lump of Flesh, drag’d up at a Milk-Pale, before a Gentile, Airy, Prudent Lady of the Town.
at airy, adj.1
[UK] ‘An Insatiate Wife’ in N. Ward Reformer 25: [S]he Coaches it to her Gallants whom she supplies with her Husband’s Money, for the Expensive Charge of his Brawny Back.
at charge, n.2
[UK] ‘A Factious Hypocrite’ in N. Ward Reformer 10: He Talks much, but Does little, and like a Loose-hung Mill, keeps a great Clacking, but Grinds no Grist.
at clack, n.
[UK] ‘An Insatiate Wife’ in N. Ward Reformer 25: Lock her from Man and Beast, from all Content, / She’ll make him Cuckold with an Instrument.
at instrument, n.
[UK] ‘The Jacobite’ in N. Ward Reformer 40: Tho' they boast themselves Englishmen, yet they [...] seem rather Bog-trotters Transplanted, the Spawn of some Red-shanks.
at redshank, n.
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