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[Ire] K. O’Hara April-Day Act III: buff.: Not wed her? dav.: No. buff.: Not bed her? dav.: No.
at bed, v.
[Ire] K. O’Hara April-Day Act I: Our don’s a dolt, a vain chick-hearted bully.
at chicken-hearted, adj.
[Ire] K. O’Hara April-Day Act II: Do I not see / That this clod’s pride, fear, and superstition, / All op’rate to our aid?
at clod, n.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara April-Day Act I: So handsome! so young, / And cut such a flash / As he pranc’d it along!
at cut a flash (v.) under flash, n.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara April-Day Act I: How to get out o’ this pucker.
at pucker, n.
[Ire] Gent.’s Mag. Apr. n.p.: Do you love your glass, every hour brings with it a fresh bumper. There [i.e. the US] you have the gum-tickler, the phlegm- cutter, the gall-breaker, the antifogmatic.
at phlegm-cutter, n.
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