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Every Man In his Humour choose

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[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour I i: I’ll not give a rush for him.
at not care a rush, v.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour V i: And you, young apple squire, and old cuckold maker.
at apple squire (n.) under apple, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour I i: From the Bordello, it might come as well, The Spittle, or Pict-hatch.
at bordello, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour I ii: Oh, Musco, didst thou not see a fellow here in a what-sha-call-him doublet; he brought mine uncle a letter even now?
at what-shall-call-um, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour (Anglicised) III i: Hard is the choice when the valiant must eat their arms, or clem.
at clem, v.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour V i: That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy.
at hoddy-doddy, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man in his Humour IV ix: How now, signior Gull! Are you turned filcher of late? Come, deliver my cloak.
at filcher, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man in His Humour IV vii: Prate again, as you like this, you whoreson foist, you.
at foist, n.2
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour (Anglicised) I i: By gadslid I scorn it.
at gadslid! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour III ii: He had so written himself into the habit of one of your poor Disparview’s here, your decayed, ruinous, worm-eaten gentlemen of the round.
at gentleman of the round (n.) under gentleman of..., n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour V i: This hoary-headed letcher, this old goat.
at goat, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour II i: God’s foot, I have lost my purse.
at God’s foot! (excl.) under God, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour I i: Whoreson, base fellow, by God’s lid.
at God’s lid! (excl.) under God, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour V i: God’s bread, tell not me of my money. [Ibid.] V i: Oh, God’s precious, is this the soldier here?
at God, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour IV ix: Why how now, signior Gull! are you turn’d filcher of late!
at gull, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour III iv: ’Sblood, I’ll be hanged if they have not hid him in the house.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour II i: A pox on it, hang it, let it go.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour I i: And still you huff it, with a kind of carriage As void of wit, as of humanity.
at huff, v.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour II i: ’Sdeath! he mads me; I could eat my very spur-leathers for anger!
at mad, v.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour III iii: ’Sblood, here’s a trick vied, and revied: why, you monkeys, you!
at monkey, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man in His Humour I:4: Guiliano: I am the rankest — that ever pissed!
at — as ever pissed under piss, v.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour III i: Then, ’sblood, I were rook’d.
at rook, v.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour II i: Whoreson scanderbag rogue.
at scanderbeg, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour III iii: ’Sheart this is Hero and Leander!
at ’sheart!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour I ii: It will do well for a suburb humour.
at suburb, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour I iii: Drunk, sir! [...] perhaps he swallowd a tavern-token.
at swallow a tavern token (v.) under swallow, v.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour III v: Cuckold? ’Swounds, cuckold?
at ’swounds!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour III iv: You cannot give him less than a shilling in conscience, for the book he had it out cost him a teston in the least.
at tester, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man In his Humour III ii: A whoreson filthy slave, a turd.
at turd, n.
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