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Gammer Gurton’s Needle choose

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[UK] ‘Mr S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) V ii: Give my Gammer again her washical thou stole away.
at what-d’you-call-it, n.
[UK] ‘Mr S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) I ii: Gog’s heart, I durst have laid my cap to a crown. [...] Gog’s Bones, this vilthy glay has dressed me too bad! [...] Gog’s soul, see how this stuff tears. [Ibid.] I iii: Gog’s bread, Hodge, thou had a good turn. [...] Gog’s sacrament, I would she had lost th’heart. [...] Gog’s wounds, Tib, my Gammer has never lost her nee’le? [Ibid.] I v: Gog’s cross, Gammer, if ye will laugh, look in but at the door. [...] Gog’s sides! Fie, It stinks!
at gog, n.
[UK] ‘Mr S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) III iii: Thou slut, thou cut, thou rakes, thou jakes, will not shame make thee hide?
at jakes, n.1
[UK] ‘Mr S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) II iv: Now Jesus, Gammer Gurton, what driveth you to this sadness?
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] ‘Mr S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) V ii: I will go near for this to make ye leap at a daisy.
at leap at a daisy (v.) under leap, v.
[UK] ‘Mr S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) V ii: Thou liar, lickdish, didst not say the nee’le would be gitten?
at lickdish (n.) under lick, v.2
[UK] ‘Mr S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) III iii: Thou wert as good kiss my tail!
at tail, n.
[UK] ‘Mr S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) III iii: Thou s’pay for all, thou old tarleather!
at tarleather, n.
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