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Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I i: The green-apron’d rascals [...] had well nigh made an end of me.at green apron (n.) under apron, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I i: The green-apron’d rascals [...] had well nigh made an end of me. Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) IV viii: To be bamboozled! cheated! laught at!at bamboozle, v.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) IV xiii: The devil sure is in fee with this roisting bell-swagger.at bellswagger, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I v: Poor blown Jack!at blown, adj.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I iv: O, how soundly will the knave constable be swing’d for this! a jack-in-office rascal! we shall cure the blue-skin’d runion of his itch for whipping.at bluecoat, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) V v: Curse on this boggling villain. Would we ne’er Had trusted him.at boggle, v.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II v: That Dick was a prate-a-pace rogue; and a devil among the bona robas.at bona roba, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) IV vii: Hey! here he comes, with his bottle-nos’d man, that pick’d my pocket.at bottlenosed, adj.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I iii: I could wish, nevertheless, old white wine stood higher in his lordship’s favour; that I may not be stinted at table, or in my by-drinkings.at bye-drink (n.) under bye, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II iv: What would I give methinks to see him well trounc’d! If it was only for giving me once a bloody coxcomb.at coxcomb, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I x: Shall a chit, a cullion, a beardless boy, presume to advise Robert Shallow, Esq?at cullion, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) III xi: Who among gill-flirts of these days has reserv’d, like myself, the same affection for the same man for twenty years together?at gill-flirt, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II viii: It lies now in master Gingle-cash, the banker’s hands.at gingleboy, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) IV xii: Dost thou think me such a goose-cap.at goose-cap (n.) under goose, n.4
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) III vi: fal.: Thou pumpion-headed rascal, stay, or — bar.: Give me good words, then, Sir John. Why pumpkin-head, pray now? fal.: Hast thou never seen a pumpion, [...] set over a candle’s-end, on a gate-post, to frighten ale-wives from gossiping by owl-light? That is a type of thee – that is thy emblem: thy head being hollow, full of light, and easily broken.at pumpkin head, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) III vi: fal.: Thou pumpion-headed rascal, stay, or — bar.: Give me good words, then, Sir John. Why pumpkin-head, pray now? fal.: Hast thou never seen a pumpion, [...] set over a candle’s-end, on a gate-post, to frighten ale-wives from gossiping by owl-light? That is a type of thee – that is thy emblem: thy head being hollow, full of light, and easily broken.at pumpkin-headed, adj.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) V viii: The man I’ve worn nearest to my heart, Is false as hell.at as hell (adv.) under hell, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) V xii: What ho! the guards – the guards, I say.at what ho!, excl.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I v: As to a house of civil entertainment, Sir John; here is one hard by, where knights and lords, and all the great gentlemen of the court, are entertained, both night and by day [...] A house of civil entertainment, a bawdy-house truly!at house of civil reception (n.) under house, n.1
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) III vi: I am as cold as e’er a white-livered younker in town.at white-livered, adj.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II ix: Did the mangy villains so play upon thy sack-but? so maul this poor round-belly? a parcel of sapless twigs!at mangy, adj.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I v: Why, marry, – hang him.at marry!, excl.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II ix: Lo! there was I, jamm’d fast in the midst of a vile groupe of mechanics.at mechanic, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I v: The law is open, say’st thou? Ay, like a mouse-trap, on the catch for nibbling clients.at nibble, v.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) V vii: Where goest thou, my pigsneye?at pigsnyes, n.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II i: Swearing indeed he knew: for, tho’ but a king’s son, he would, as thou say’st, rap out an oath like an emperor.at rap, v.1
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II ix: dol: Give me a buss. fal.: Go, Dol, you are riggish.at riggish (adj.) under rig, n.1
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) IV x: Had we not better hire some ruffian’s poniard; One whose miscarriage might not even reach us.at ruffian, n.1
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I v: You have thus shuffled off and on me, a good while; but I must, I must be paid.at shuffle, v.
Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II vii: Then to see how demurely Sir Slyboots angled for me, as if I had been a gudgeon!at slyboots (n.) under sly, adj.
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