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Don Zara Del Fogey choose

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[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 135: Thy breeding no better then that the Boars of Belgia afford their swat-bodies Bantlings.
at bantling, n.
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 112: O thou inexorable Beef-brained Man.
at beef-witted (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 17: Both Brandy-wine and Aqua-vitae [...] As plentiful as Bonniclabber.
at bonny-clapper, n.
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 9: Thus chewing the cud of courage, he rode on in much vexation.
at chew the cud, v.
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 108: The Dand-prat Deity sits triumphing in his own Trenches.
at dandiprat, n.
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 162: Where shall I bath this vexed body, Tormented to a Hoddy-Doddy?
at hoddy-doddy, n.
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 164: The great, the fruitful, and the barren, With a Hors-pox and a Murren. Lead on and weep till ye are blind.
at horse-pox (n.) under horse, n.
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 91: Always drinking, alwayes whoring, you spend your lives with wag-tayl’d Wives [...] Till your proud flesh make ye pocky.
at pocky, adj.
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 47: A Pox upon thee, and they Sea-born Mother.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy vi (1719) 33: So that he remained for a time as one trans-elemented. [Note] Meaning transmografide, or metarmorphosed into a Mandrake [OED].
at transmogrify, v.
[UK] ‘Basilius Musophilus’ Don Zara Del Fogoy 91: Always drinking, alwayes whoring, you spend your lives with wag-tayl’d Wives [...] Till your proud flesh make ye pocky.
at wagtailed, adj.
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