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[Scot] Dunbar ‘The Wowing of the King in Dunfermeling’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 52: And with hir playit, and maid gud game, Syne till his breist did hir imbrace, And wald haif riddin hir lyk ane rame.
at play a game single-hand (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘Flyting of Dunbar & Kennedie’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 9: Thow hes na breik to latt thy bollokis gyngill; Beg the ane club, fo, baird, thow sall go naikit.
at ballocks, n.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘Flyting of Dunbar & Kennedy’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 7: Cuntbitten crawdoun Kennedy, coward of kynd.
at cunt-bitten (adj.) under cunt, n.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘Flyting of Dunbar & Kennedy’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 19: Machomete, manesuorne, bugrist abhominabile, Devill, dampnit dog, sodymyte insatiable.
at dog, n.2
[Scot] Dunbar ‘Flyting of Dunbar & Kennedy’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 6: Wan fukkit funling, that natour maid ane yrle, Baith Iohine the Ros and thow sall squeill and skirle.
at fuck, v.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘Of Discretioun in Geving’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 33: And for a huidpyk haldin is he, That all the warld cryis on him, Fy.
at hoddy peak, n.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘In Secreit Place this Hyndir Nycht’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 53: I hard ane beyrne say till ane bricht, ‘My huny, my hart’.
at honey, n.1
[Scot] W. Dunbar ‘To the Quene’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 60: I saw coclinkis [prostitute] me besyd The young men to thair howses gyd [...] Some fra the bordell wald nocht byd, Quhill that thai gatt the Spanyie pockis.
at house, n.1
[Scot] Dunbar ‘A General Satyre’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 152: Sa mony theivis and mycharis weill kend.
at mitcher, n.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘Remonstrance to the King’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 37: Mousouris of France, gud clarat-cunnaris.
at mounseer, n.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘Complainte to the King’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 40: Ane pykthank in a prelottis clais, With his wavill feit and wirrock tais.
at pickthank, n.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘The Wowing of the King in Dunfermeling’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 52: And with hir playit, and maid gud game, Syne till his breist did hir imbrace, And wald haif riddin hir lyk ane rame.
at ride, v.
[Scot] Dunbar ‘To the Quene’ in Mackenzie Poems (1932) 60: I saw coclinkis [prostitute] me besyd The young men to thair howses gyd [...] Some fra the bordell wald nocht byd, Quhill that thai gatt the Spanyie pockis.
at Spanish pox (n.) under Spanish, adj.
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