Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Holinshed Chronicles (Ireland) II 26/2: The estate of that flourishing towne was turned arsie versie, topside the other waie.at arsey-varsey, phr.
Holinshed Chronicles (Ireland) II 29/2: The Irish doubtlesse repose a great affiance in this balducktum dreame.at balductum, adj.
Holinshed Chronicles (Ireland) II 40/2: Thomas being the ringleader of the one sect, and Scotus the belweadder of the other.at bell-wether, n.
Holinshed Chronicles VI (1807) 82: The mountaine parts and out Iles euen vnto this daie are inhabited with a wild kind of people called Redshanks, esteemed by some to be mingled Scots and Picts.at redshank, n.
Holinshed Chronicles III 1170/1: It pleased God to send England a calme and quiet season, a cleare and louely sunshine [...] a quitsest from former broiles of a turbulent estate.at quitsest, n.
Chronicles (N.Y.) XI 6/3: These times when novelists may be divided into prisspants like Truman Capote and foulmouths like Norman Mailer.at prissy-pants, n.
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