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The womens advocate, or, Fifteen real comforts of matrimony choose

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[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 38: Tis a greater discomfort to him to see his Daughter return’d upon his hands, like a Bromigham-groat.
at Brummagem, adj.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 82: Where is there more scolding than at Billingsgate? And yet where more love and friendship? Those very woman you saw engag’d tongues and nails just now, you shall see the next moment bubbing together like sworn sisters.
at bub, v.1
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 58: Change your Cock, was a piece of advice once given to a Lady ... upon a complaint of ineffectual conjunction.
at cock, n.3
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 52: But for a poor-spirited Oaf to be cowbaby’d by his Punk; to let her cog and flatter out of him not only his own but the secrets of his Wife.
at cowbaby, v.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 81: A gang of crack-ropes had got an honest simple fellow once and made him believe that for so much money they would carry him to a place where he should find a stone that would make him invisible. The credulous goose agrees.
at crack-rope (n.) under crack, v.2
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 8: Do you think that person was not most severely and unmercifully used by a Daughter of Joy, that when he had bargain’d with her for a nights dalliance for twenty pounds, coming to tell the mony, and finding thrteen-pence-halfpenny wanting [etc].
at daughter of joy (n.) under daughter, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 2: Let a handsome draggletail come in sight, and they cry, Fair and sluttish.
at draggle-tail, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 57: Why then did the woman […] endeavour to blind him with her flim-flam-stories.
at flim-flam, adj.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 99: What greater pleasure can a man have, than to fuddle with his own Wife?
at fuddle, v.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 45: But what may we think of those decrepit half-pint Lechers […] as sapless as a dry’d Fennel-stalk.
at half-pint, adj.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 105: What man would […] discompose the hole frame of Natures habitation for a Hogo in his Pork.
at hogo, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 109: Play-Houses, the Nurseries of Hoity toyty Imagination.
at hoity-toity, adj.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 47: The poor Gentleman at home is like John Hold-my-staff, she must Rule, Govern, Insult, Brawl.
at john-hold-my-staff (n.) under John, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 94: Twere impossible else, that there should be so much work for the Surgeons and Pintle-smiths about this Town […] such swarms of Charlatans and Knights of the Syringe in every corner of the City.
at ...the syringe (v.) under knight of the..., n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 27: [This] must of force be a great consolation to his mind, over the left Shoulder.
at over the left (shoulder)!, excl.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 41: He lies at rack and manger, and has his full swinge of all the pleasure he is in any possibility capable of.
at lie at rack and manger (v.) under lie, v.1
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 27: In pops the light Housewife in the dark out of her close Sedan, and goes for the wife of a bad husband gone beyond the Sea.
at light housewife (n.) under light, adj.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 97: These maxims the Town-Misses are not ignorant of.
at miss, n.1
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 68: This same hot-codpiec’d Monsieur.
at mounseer, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 76: Nor is the woman to be blam’d for taking pepper i’ the nose, to see a Nickapoop revealing the secrets of his wife to his own ignominy.
at nincompoop, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 92: [He] gave her a Nooning over her Husbands head upon the same Chest where he lay fast under lock and key.
at nooning, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 101: The Surgeon that boasted that he had Nuts of Priapus’s anow (the spoils of venereal Combats) to button a Leaguer-Cloak, gives a woman sufficient warning to be careful of her husbands ware.
at nut, n.1
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 97: The Surgeon that boasted that he had Nuts of Priapus enow (the spoils of venereal Combats) to button a leaguer-cloak gives a woman sufficient wearning to be careful of her husbands ware.
at nuts of Priapus (v.) under nut, n.1
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 79: Some men love to open their Oysters themselves; others care not for that drudgery.
at oyster, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 54: The cunning tongue-pad Slut […] undermines the very heart of a man.
at tongue pad, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 39: One smooth Chinn’d Slipstring or other [...] makes a Pye-Corner Ensurance of his Affection upon her Belly.
at pie, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 94: Twere impossible else, that there should be so much work for the Surgeons and Pintle-smiths about this Town […] such swarms of Charlatans and Knights of the Syringe in every corner of the City.
at pintle-smith (n.) under pintle, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 65: Pox a this thowing good money after bad - by Jove I hate it mortally.
at pox!, excl.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 61: It hapn’d well for Father Princock, whose master […] was now become his perfect slave.
at princock, n.
[UK] Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 102: Men […] flinging their Glasses over their Shoulders, […] burning their Coats, hats and Perriwigs , and then running to Bawdihouses, mad as March-hares, their Scowring, as they call it, […] breaking peoples Windows , their quarrels with the Watch.
at scour, v.2
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