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[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb II i: The queen Dollalolla’s as drunk as a sow.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb I i: Arthur to Doll / Is grown bobbish and uxorious.
at bobbish, adj.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb I iv: Stop, brandy-nose!
at brandy-face (n.) under brandy, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb I ii: The bloody business of grim war is o’er.
at business, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb II iv: Yet thus bereft, / Not one chum left.
at chum, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb I iv: I’ll be there and here, in a crack.
at in a crack under crack, n.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb I iv: Am I thus fobb’d?
at fob, v.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb II iii: Bear off the carcasses; lop off his knob.
at knob, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb I iii: Do pop up your nob again, / And ’egad I’ll crack your crown.
at nob, n.1
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb I ii: Out from my sight, base Pickthank, hie, begine!
at pickthank, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb II i: King Arthur in love ankle deep—speed the plough, / Glumdalca will soon be his punk-a.
at plough, n.
[Ire] K. O’Hara Tom Thumb I ii: O happy Tommy! super-happy Thumb.
at super, adv.
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