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[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. ix: For stoppyng of gaps (quoth he) care not a rushe.
at not care a rush, v.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: Let us be trudgeyng, / Where some noppy ale is.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. vii: Claw a churle by th’ars, and he shiteth in my hand. [Ibid.] Ch. viii: Suche drifres drave hem from ill to wars and wars, / Tyll he was as bare as a birds ars.
at arse, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs in Farmer (1906) I Ch. iix: There is nothing more vain, as yourself tell can, Than to beg a breech of a bare-arsed men.
at -arsed, sfx
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs in Farmer (1906) I Ch. ix: There is nothing more vain, as yourself tell can, Than to beg a breech of a bare-arsed man.
at bare-arsed, adj.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. x: He brought the bottom of the bag cleane out. / His gadyng thus agayne made hir ill content, / But she not so muche as dreamd that all was spent.
at bag, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: I praie the leat me and my felow have / A heare of the dog that bote us last nyght. / And bitten were we both to the brayne aright.
at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. vi: By God, th’olde bitche biteth sorer and more. / And not with teeth (she hath none) but with her tong.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: Ye have many stryngs to the bowe, for ye know, / Thought I, havyng the bent of your uncles bow, / Can no way bryng your bolt in the butte to stand.
at bow, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. v: But all be bugs words, that I speake to spare. / Better space at brym than at bottom, saye I.
at bug, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. vii: Such carpenters, such chips. Quoth she, folke tell.
at chips, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: His wyfe to make up my mouthe, / Not only her husbandes tauntyng tale avouthe, / But thereto deviseth to cast in my teeth, / Checks and chokyng oysters.
at choking oyster, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: Ka me, ka thee, one good tourne askth an other.
at claw me and I’ll claw you under claw, v.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. ii: And in meane tyme my akyng head to ease, / I wyll couche a hogs hed.
at couch a hogshead (v.) under couch, v.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. vi: You make her a cockqueyn and consume her good.
at cuck, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: He was, (as he will be), somewhat cupshotten.
at cupshot (adj.) under cup, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. viii: I shall follow her will? / To make me John Drawlock, or such a snekebill.
at draw-latch, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. v: We shall see him prove a merchant of eels-skins – / A merchant without either money or ware.
at merchant of eel-skins, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: I shall get a fart of a dead man as soone / As a farthyng of hym. [Ibid.] II v: They that wyll be afrayd of every farte, / Must go far to pisse.
at fart, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. iiii: Olde fish and young flesh (quoth he) doth men best feede.
at fish, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. iiii: Set the hares head against the gose jiblet. She is (quoth he) bent to fors you perfors / To know, that the grey mare is the better hors.
at giblets, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. vii: And in madde jelousy she is so farre gon / She thinkth I roon over all, that I looke on.
at gone, adj.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: What should we (quoth I) grease the fat sow in th’ars.
at grease a fat sow in the arse (v.) under grease, v.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: They be bothe greedy guts all given to get, / They care not how.
at greedy-gut, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. iiii: Set the hares head against the gose jiblet.
at hare, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. xi: Onely for both I wed not, by my hood!
at by my hood! (excl.) under hood, n.2
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. x: Either for honour or honestie as good / As she gave hym. She was (as they say) horne wood.
at horn, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: I have been common Jacke to all that hole flocke.
at jack, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. iiii: Eche others byrdes or jewels, ye do weie / Above your owne.
at jewel, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Proverbs II Ch. iii: Jak shal have Gyl.
at jill, n.1
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