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[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden III i: A figg for these Physicall observations.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden II ii: Thou art a Baboone of formality, and an ape of court-ship.
at ape, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden II ii: Thou art a Baboone of formality, and an ape of court-ship.
at baboon, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden III ii: I know hee dare as well take the wall of a drunken Constable, or justle a Buffe-coat leading a wench, as meet me.
at buff-coat (n.) under buff, adj.1
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden I vi: ierk.: I will tast the sweet-meats in your Ladies Closet. susan: I understand you not. ieffr.: He means you should lie under him.
at closet, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden II ii: Thy Fiddle-sticke shall not save thee.
at fiddlestick, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden III i: What if my Lady Mothers Chamber-maid and Ioane in the Kitchen were here?
at joan, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden I ii: If my Master chance to lie at your house, I should be glad to if I might lie over your Daughter.
at lie on (v.) under lie, v.1
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden II ii: Thy dullnesse is capable of no more then to frame Hetroclites from mens names, and scribble a warrant or a mittimus by a president.
at mittimus, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden I vi: He means you should lie under him [...] Indeed, Mistris, ’tis a cold corner, pray turne it to the South, and let my needle run in your Diall.
at needle, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden I iv: Friend Art-love, the good fortune of a petticote light upon thee, in the name of Venery what mak’st thou here? art’ in quest of smock-bedfellow.
at petticoat, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden III i: The Combatants will enter presently. The Knight of the Inkhorne, and the Knight of the Spanish Needle.
at Spanish gout (n.) under Spanish, adj.
[UK] T. Nabbes Covent Garden III iii: What say you pretty paire of Wag-tailes? doe you want play-mates?
at wagtail, n.
[UK] Covent Garden n.p.: [pic. caption] Tippy Bob – the Natty Crop. This young gent ‘quite the tippy’. My name is Tippy Bob / With a watch in each fob / [...] / If I am not the thing – may I wish I may swing.
at swing, v.
[UK] Covent Garden n.p.: [pic. caption] Tippy Bob – the Natty Crop. This young gent ‘quite the tippy’.
at tippy, n.
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