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Tale of Three Bonnets choose

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[Scot] A. Ramsey Tale of Three Bonnets (1785) 6: She was a winsome wench and waly [...] Just sic as her wha far aff wander’d To get hersel weel Alexander’d.
at alexander, v.
[Scot] A. Ramsey Tale of Three Bonnets (1785) 11: Vile whore and jade, the woody bang her.
at bang, v.1
[Scot] A. Ramsey Tale of Three Bonnets (1785) 19: She had a dealing with Auld Nick [...] She drank, and fought, and spent her gear With dice, and selling o’ the mare. Thus living like a Belzi’s [Beelzebub] get, She ran her sell sae deep in debt.
at get, n.1
[Scot] A. Ramsey Tale of Three Bonnets (1785) 15: O gosh! O gosh! then Jouk have at her, If that be a’ ’tis nae great matter.
at gosh!, excl.
[Scot] A. Ramsey Tale of Three Bonnets (1785) 14: I have a secret to impart [...] It will set baith your lugs a tinkling.
at lug, n.1
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