Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? choose

Quotation Text

[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 47: His Bride intending Action more than Devotion, addressed her selfe to him, in this Bridall Curtaine Lecture.
at action, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 93: The common cure for care to every man, / ‘A potte of nappy Ale’.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 129: But I warrant it, thou wouldst [‘dye with loving’], if thou hadst an handfull of me. A proper handfull, quoth she. I should bee much better for a bit and a buffet with't. Nay, faith, wench, I would never buffet.
at bit, n.1
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 60: [T]hat fat Farrier and his bounsing Hussy; who meeting in a Forrest, and both addressed for pleasure.
at bouncing, adj.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 162: Should he fall of in his posture, through debility of nature; her Page must be preferred before her Vsher: and the reason is, a Cock-Sparrow is more active than a Bald Bussard.
at buzzard, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 84: A wily wench there was (as I have read,) / Who us’d to Capricorne her Husbands head.
at capricorn, v.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 163: [At the Play-house she] gracefully whispers in her Vshers care [...] and now and then at some amorous-moving passage, playes at Cent-foot purposely to discover the pregnancy of her conceit.
at cent-foot (n.) under cent, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 47: Pray thee chick, what art’ doing? Praying, Coney, said he. For what, Pigs-nie, said shee?
at cony, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 74: [T]he Tale of a Wenching Companion, who could not fare well but he must cry roast-meat.
at cry roast meat (v.) under cry, v.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 13: You are none of our Curtain Lecturers, who disquiet the rest of your Husbands. Nor know you how to call them up into the Garret, to give them gentle correction [ibid.] 47: His Bride intending Action more than Devotion, addressed her selfe to him, in this Bridall Curtaine Lecture.
at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 80: [He] begins to read his Wife a Curtaine Lecture.
at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 235: [They] continued there for a season in all jollity and pleasure: every one having his dainty Doxy or Damasella to consort with.
at doxy, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 90: One (and such an One very likely as had a finger in the pye) seeing him in this mad mood; begunne to chide him.
at finger, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 76: One, who could forge and hammer any thing cunningly, to compasse her pleasure.
at forge, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 43: To take a Green-gowne, as to give a Sillibub: for if you should barre them of Liberty, they could finde small employment for Agility of body.
at green gown, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 8: [of an adulterous couple] [H]is impertinent Greek phrase made them merry Greekes all that night.
at Greek, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 76: One, who could forge and hammer any thing cunningly, to compasse her pleasure.
at hammer, v.1
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 164: For if this reverend Trunke-hose turne up his heeles, whosoever stumble on his Grave, his Foreman Vsher is in faire possibility, to enjoy his grath.
at turn up one’s heels (v.) under heel, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 83: Now, with what dishonour he was kick’t out oth' Chamber, I leave it to you, if you had your wives besieged in like manner, to censure.
at kick out, v.1
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 226: Sir, either light thoughts have so mis-guided you [...] or some base [...] Betrayer of Womens honour ha’s deluded you, by giving you incouragement to such an indiscreet attempt.
at light, adj.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 226: What loose passage ha’s there fallne from us, or wherein have you seene any argument of Lightnesse by us?
at lightness (n.) under light, adj.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 98: That trifling Girle, who fell a cracking of nuts, while another was taking paines to picke out the kernell of her virginity.
at nuts, n.2
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 109: Chafed! how? with oyle of tongue; / Hardned! how? by suff'ring wrong.
at oil of tongue (n.) under oil of..., n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 59: I will give you here a touch of the slavish condition of those inhabitants, to weine the most mercenary Palliard from the like qualities.
at palliard, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 47: Pray thee chick, what art’ doing? Praying, Coney, said he. For what, Pigs-nie, said shee?
at pigsnyes, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 31: Dearest Duckling, be it knowne to you [...] that I have pissed bloud three dayes and three nights since I last saw you, and received that unwomanly relentlesse answer from you: so as your harsh and untoward quality was the onely cause [...] of this my misery.
at piss blood (v.) under piss, v.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 100: Play with me, but hurt me not; Ieast [i.e. lie’st] with me, but shame me not.
at play, v.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 118: —trust mee, Chick, thou shalt not. —Now, pray thee, Prick, doe not. -iffaith, you’r a sleake youth. —you playd the wag with mee last night. — well, God forgive thee.
at prick, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 4: Shee was made of a Crookt Subject, a Rib: and out of her crooked disposition [...] shee will not stick to tyrannize over a sheepish husband, and give him rib-roast.
at rib roast, n.
[UK] R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? : [S]he did it [i.e. slept with the neighbour] [...] to know whether other men had a stone at rigge, as he had, which made her suspect him for a Monster.
at rig, n.5
load more results