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The Spanish Rivals choose

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[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I iii: Rat the man’s assurance! If I know what to make of him I’m a nun.
at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II ii: Ad’s wooks! — what noise is that?
at adzooks!, excl.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals Prologue: What cheer aloft?—Any Bucks of Wapping? [...] Come, come, all hands to clapping.
at buck, n.1
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I i: Two bullies in the stocks never bore a pelting in the stocks with more patience than you and I did at St. Roche.
at bully, n.1
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II iii: I don’t care two-pence for your daughter.
at not care twopence, v.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II ii: Yes, chuck!
at chuck, n.1
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals Prologue: See what comes next—and, damme! see it out.
at damme!, excl.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I ii: bast.: Narcisso de Medici! ’Gad, the very man I want to hear of. [...] peter: Why, mun, that’s my master, and a gosh drat comical shaver it is! — Oh! it’s a comical shaver.
at gosh-darned, adj.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I ii: peter: I recon I mun never see canny Cumberland again, the heart of all England, by Gosh. bast.: You like better, it seems, to be in the heart of all Spain, by Gosh.
at by gosh! (excl.) under gosh!, excl.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II ii: My good old Grannum often said [...] That Men were for the Women made.
at grannam, n.2
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II i: I wish you wud keep my measter that way, he looks so obstrop’lous.
at obstropolous, adj.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II i: But, Odd-rabbit me, if I ever catch you in Cumberland!
at od rot it! under od, n.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II i: Od zaws! I div’n’t ken.
at odso! (excl.) under ods, n.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I ii: Married!— Odd’s wucks and tar! no, no.
at ods, n.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I ii: Ay, he’s a queer Quis.
at quiz, n.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I iii: Rat the man’s assurance! If I know what to make of him I’m a nun.
at rat, v.1
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II i: I wull, for I had it au in my head directly, and saiks I made the horses run at a fine size for it.
at sakes!, excl.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I ii: ’Icod, I think he has jumbled it a bit—He’s a queer stick to make a thivel on, as they say in our country.
at stick, n.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I ii: He’s a top fiddler — and I could a’ danc’d Old Roger like a ribbon.
at top, adj.
[Ire] M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II i: Oh, Zooks! that, and the cursed blanket business, have shook me into subdivisions.
at zooks!, excl.
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