Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Cibber Life of Colley Cibber 28: I was so jeer’d, laugh’d at, and hated as a pragmatical Bastard (School-boys Language) who had betray’d the whole Form.at bastard, n.
Cibber Life of Colley Cibber 31: Therefore, right or wrong, a Lick at the Laureat will always be a Sure Bait [...] to catch him little Readers.at lick, n.2
Cibber Life of Colley Cibber 248: She mutter’d out her Words in a sort of mifty manner, at my low Opinion of her.at mifty, adj.
Cibber Life of Colley Cibber 16: I don’t see any one Pursuit of them that should so reasonably rouze me out of a Nod in my Great Chair.at nod, n.1
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