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[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 117: But of you Ale, / Your Nappy Ale, / I would I had a Ferkin.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 131: And thou maist kiss mine Arse Cook, / And all was for a pudden they took.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 103: Take a pound of butter made in May, / Clap it to her Arse in a Summers day, / And ever as it melts, then lick it clean away; / ’Tis a Med’cine for the Tooth-ach, old wives say.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements n.p.: There is not in Nature, a merrier life / Than that of the brave Bonny-baller, / Who still at his beck, hath another man’s wife, / And his Doxey, when e’er he will call her .
at bonny-baller, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 280: Some keep their Quarters as high as the gates / With Shinkin ap Morgan, with Blue-cap or Tege.
at blue cap (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 204: The tenth is a Shop-lift that carries a Bob, / When he ranges the City the Shops for to rob.
at bob, n.2
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 213: At the Bouzing-ken, / I’le spend it all in Beer, Sir.
at bousing-ken, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 201: The Gittarn, the Lute, / The Pipe, and the Flute, / Are the new Alamode for the Nan boys.
at nan boy, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 204: The eleventh is a Bubber, much used of late / He goes to the Alehouse, and steals there the Plate.
at bubber, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 204: The seventh is a Budge, to track up the stairs.
at budge, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 204: The eighth is a Bulk, that can bulk any Hick.
at bulk, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 204: The eighth is a Bulk, that can bulk any Hick.
at bulk, v.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 213: Then in the throng, / I nip his Bung.
at bung, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 205: The nineteenth is a Prigger of Cacklers [...] He steals their Poultrey, and thinks it no sin.
at cackler, n.2
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 205: All the black Trades of a Gentleman Thief; / Who though a good Workman, is seldom made free, / Till he rides on a Cart to be nooz’d on a Tree.
at cart, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 257: But yet those Citts are subtil slaves, / Most of them Wits, and knowing Knaves.
at cit, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 204: The sixth is a Foyl-cloy that not one Hick spares.
at foil-cloy, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 256: I cog a Dye, swagger and lie.
at cog, v.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 205: The fourteenth a Gamester, if he sees the Hick sweet, / He present’y drops down a Cog in the street.
at cog, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 205: The thirteenth a Fambler, false rings for to sell, / When a Mob he has bit, his Cole he will tell.
at cole, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 282: And under the Waste, / The Belly is plac’d, / And under that / I know no what, / But I think they do call it a — Coney.
at cony, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 204: The twelfth a Trapan, if a Cull he doth meet, / He naps all his Cole, and turns him i’th street.
at cull, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 302: If any man do want a House, / Be he Prince, Barronet, or Squire, / Or Peasant, hardly worth a Louse, / I can fit his desire / I have a Tenement, the which / I’m sure can fit them all; / ’Tis seated near a stinking Ditch, / Some call it Cunny-Hall. / It stands close by Cunny-Alley, / At foot of Belly-hill.
at cunny alley (n.) under cunny, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 257: Then I cry, Dam me, you lie.
at damme!, excl.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 205: The sixteenth a Sheep-napper, whose trade’s so deep, / If he’s caught in the Corn, he’s mark’d for a Sheep.
at deep, adj.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 269: From London Town, / There’s lately come down / Four able Physitians [sic] that never wore Gown, / Their Physick is pleasant, their Dose it is large.
at dose, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 187: Though he travels all the day, / Yet he comes home still at night, / And dallies with his Doxie.
at doxy, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 213: My dainty Dells, my Doxies [...] Poor wretches, they, / Will set their Duds a packing.
at duds, n.1
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 205: The seventeenth a Dun-aker, that will make vows, / To go to the Countrey and steal all the Cows.
at dunaker, n.
[UK] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 159: Cupid’s no God, a wanton Childe [...] Feathers his Arrows with desire, / ’Tis not his Bow or Shaft, ’tis Venus Eye / Makes him ador’d and crowns his Deity.
at eye, n.
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