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[UK] T. Killigew Parson’s Wedding in Dodsley XIV (1875) II vii: ’Tis certain the court is the bravest place in the kingdom for sport, if it were well looked to, and the game preserved fair; but, as ’tis, a man may sooner make a set in the Strand.
at make a set (v.) under set, n.1
[UK] T. Killigew Parson’s Wedding in Dodsley XIV (1875) II vii: ’Tis certain the court is the bravest place in the kingdom for sport, if it were well looked to, and the game preserved fair; but, as ’tis, a man may sooner make a set in the Strand.
at sport, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) II vi: And ugly, her Abigail, she had her say too?
at abigail, n.1
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) II v: wild: I must see the Wench. capt.: You cannot, a dad, a dad you cannot.
at adad!, excl.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) I i: When the city ran mad after their Russet Levites, Apron-rogues with horn hands.
at apron-rogue (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’ s Wedding (1664) V iv: Thou’rt an Ass.
at ass, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) III i: Follow her, like one of my Aunts of the Suburbs.
at aunt, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) V iv: My lady would have a husband to rejoyce with, no green-tail’d Lecturer, to stand Centry at his bed’s side while his nasty soul scoures through him, sneaking out at the back door.
at back-door, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) V ii: A pair of those what d’ye call’ems, those he-waiting women, Beasts, that Custome imposes upon ladies.
at beast, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) V iv: Lend me your cloak then, to appear more decent; you’d not ha’ me present Epilogue in Buff, whoreson Dunce, with a red nose?
at buff, n.1
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) IV vii: Who, Pegg Driver, Bewgle Eyes? [...] Why, she is ugly now?.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) III v: Her lady [...] raised her from the flat Peti-coat, and Kercher, to the Gorget and Bum-roll.
at bum-roll (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) V iv: A fellow whose breath smells of yesterday’s dinner, and stinks as if he had eaten all our suppers over again [...] Dost thou think any woman, that has wit or honour, would kiss that bung-hole?
at bunghole, n.1
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) I iii: Who, Mr Jeoffry? Hobinol the second; by this life, ’tis a very Veal, and he licks his Nose like one of them.
at calf, n.1
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) I iii: He confess’d, she cur’d him of three Claps before he married her.
at clap, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) I i: His Clapper is less dangerous than thine.
at clapper, n.1
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) II i: No Cogging, you have injur’d me.
at cog, v.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) II v: No partners in such commodities: your factor that takes up maidenheads, ’tis upon his own account.
at commodity, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) II vii: When a stranger comes in, and spies a Covey of Beauties would make a Faulconer unhood, before he can draw his Leash he is warn’d that’s a markt Partridge.
at covey, n.1
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) V iv: I find our plot’s betrayed [...] ’Tis that damned captain has informed.
at damned, adj.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) II v: wild.: He refuses to show me his Wench. care.: The devil he do’s; what have we been thus long comrades, and had all things in common, and must we now come to have common Wenches particular?
at devil, the, phr.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) I ii: If I had his heart-strings tied on a True-lover’s-knot, I would so firk him till he found physick in a Rope.
at firk, v.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) III ii: Your French seasoning spoils many a woman.
at French, adj.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) II vii: The Court is the bravest place in the Kingdom for sport, if it were well look’d to, and the Game preserv’d fair; but as ’tis, a man may sooner make a set in the Strand.
at game, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) IV i: She is a right broken Gamester, who, though she lacks wherewithal to play, yet loves to be looking on.
at gamester, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) III v: Your Worship is merry; but I’le fetch you that, sir, shall speak Greek, and make your Worship prophecy.
at Greek, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) III ii: I’ll take her with her guts in her Belly.
at gut, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew The Parson’s Wedding (1664) III v: Score a quart of sack in the half-moon?
at half-moon, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) I i: Do you not know he’s married according to the Rogues Liturgy? a left-handed bridegroom; I saw him take the ring from a Tinker’s Dowager.
at left-handed wife (n.) under left-handed, adj.
[UK] T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) V ii: He heard me once praise my little spaniel bitch Smut for waiting, and hang me if I stirred for seven years after, but I found him lying at my door.
at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
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