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[Ire] Lyly Midas I i: If [...] thou make not thy mistris a goldfinch, thou mayst chance to find her a wagtaile.
at wagtail, n.
[Ire] J. Lilly Midas II ii: A reason dow-baked .
at dough-baked (adj.) under dough, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas (1771) 27: Will you reject my income, / Herds and clinkum?
at clink, n.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas III ii: Come, let’s take one bouze, and roar a catch.
at bouse, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I v: The wenches have turn’d tail – to yon buck-ranter.
at buck, adj.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I v: And clink the cannikin here below.
at canniken, n.2
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas III i: His carroty locks / As red as a fox.
at carrotty, adj.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I v: I’ll smash his trim guittar – about his chaps.
at chops, n.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas III ii: I always chuck a priming at the tap, or / A cogue of Nantzy, just to oil my clapper.
at clapper, n.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II i: Strip him, Whip him [...] Clip him, Rip him.
at clip, v.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I i: Cock of the School. He bears despotic rule.
at cock, n.3
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas act II: Marry come up a gain. / Indeed! my dirty cousin!
at marry come up!, excl.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I v: He, with kicks o’ th’ crupper, Will make Pol dance.
at crupper, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas III i: Lay snug – far’d well – ne’er cried roast meat.
at cry roast meat (v.) under cry, v.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II i: Soon mounted in the air, if / You chance to see the cudden / A caper cut before the sheriff.
at cut a caper (upon nothing) (v.) under cut, v.3
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II i: daph.: Ay go dangle. [...] nys.: Yes, to Tyburn.
at dangle, v.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas III ii: And I with my davy will back it, / I’ll swear.
at davy, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II ii: Who sent for you, you hoddy doddy?
at hoddy-doddy, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II i: He o’er looked the little Doxy, I’m the girl he means to woo.
at doxy, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I iv: A smock-fac’d Youth!
at smock-faced, adj.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas III ii: Fob off this tatterdemallion.
at fob someone off (v.) under fob, v.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I v: Let him fluster And bluster, Yet cringe to his harridan’s furbella.
at furbelow, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II i: Neatest, Compleatest And sweetest Dear Fusby.
at fusby, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II i: Gad’s bud, I dread her vengeance.
at gadsbobs! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I iv: An upstart! – rival me! – by George, I’ll pheaze him.
at by George! (excl.) under George, n.2
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas III ii: He shall rue on his knees ’em, / Or skip, by goles, / As high as Paul’s.
at by goll! (excl.) under goll, n.2
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I ii: Hungry guts, and empty purse.
at gut, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II i: Not the halter / Can alter / The passion that’s rooted here.
at halter, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas I ii: Hang me if I marry.
at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Midas II i: I swear by Old Harry The moment madam’s coffin’d – Her I’ll marry.
at Old Harry, n.
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