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Every Man Out of his Humour choose

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[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour V iv: He becomes as churlish as a hog, or drunk as a sow.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour in Works (1875) II 157: carlo: I warrant you: would I had one of Kemp’s shoes to throw after you. puntarvolo: Good fortune will close the eyes of our jest, fear not; and we shall frolick.
at would I had Kemp’s shoes to throw after you, phr.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II ii: Some call him Apple-John.
at apple-john (n.) under apple, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour I i: That brass-visaged monster Barbarism.
at brass-face (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II i: These be our nimble spirited catsos, that have their evasions at pleasure.
at catso, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour Dramatis Personae: Sordido, a wretched hob-nailed chuff.
at chuff, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour I i: This clod, a whoreson puck-fist!
at clod, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour IV iv: O, d--n me! immortality!
at damn, v.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II i: ’Sheart, what a damn’d witty rogue’s this!
at damned, adv.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II i: So is the dog’s.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour I i: S’blood, why should such a prick-ear’d hind as this be rich, ha?
at prick-eared, adj.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour V iv: The whoreson strummel-patch’d, goggled-eyed grumbledories.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour III ii: You sky-staring coxcombs you, you fat-brains, out upon you.
at fat-head, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II i: Gad’s me, here’s company!
at gad, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour III iii: I love not the breath of a woodcock’s head.
at woodcock’s head, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour characters: Sordido, a wretched hobnailed chuff.
at hobnailed, adj.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour V vii: Remember you are a woman, turn impudent; give him not the head, though you give him the horns.
at give horns (v.) under horn, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour III ii: These star-monger knaves, who would trust them? One says dark and rainy, when ’tis as clear as chrystal.
at -monger, sfx
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour IV iv: Ods so, look here, man.
at odso! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II i: Ods ’slid, an I could compass it.
at ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour I i: Od’s precious, come away, man .
at ods precious! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour III i: It comes well, for I had not so much as the least portcullis of coin before.
at portcullis, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour I i: To be enamour’d on this duty turf, This clod, a whoreson puck-fist!
at puckfist, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II ii: He? that rook That painted jay, with such a deal of outside.
at rook, n.1
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II i: ’Slud, I think he feeds her with porridge.
at ’sblood!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour characters: Shift, a thread-bare shark; [...] He lives upon lendings. His profession is skeldering and odling, his bank Paul’s.
at shark-shift (n.) under shark, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour characters: Shift, a thread-bare shark [...] His profession is skeldering.
at shark, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man out of his Humour III iii: How long should I be, ere I should put off To the lord chancellor’s tomb, or the shrives’ posts?
at sheriff’s posts (n.) under sheriff, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour I i: A shallow fool, he has no more brain than a butterfly, a mere stuft suit.
at stuffed shirt, n.
[UK] Jonson Every Man out of His Humour V vi: If you be out [of humour] keepe your distance, and bee not made a Shot-clog no more.
at shot-clog (n.) under shot, n.1
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