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The Dead Alive choose

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[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 5: You carry your beef vid you – here is de beef (touching the coachman’s belly).
at beef, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 6: Enter a Black crying.Coachman What, and Blacky goes too?
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 5: Alas! he is all broke – and ma foi – I am all broke again.
at broke, adj.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 16: A second-hand son of a sorcerer! a hey-cockalorum conjuror!.
at high cockalorum!, excl.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 24: My niece buried! why she’s crack’d (Aside).
at cracked, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 36: I’ll not dust the rascal’s jacket this bout.
at dust someone’s jacket (v.) under dust, v.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 6: Hannibal [i.e. a black servant], your fleece and complexion soon get you into bread.
at fleece, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 7: Dennis. My master desires you and Hannibal may keep your liveries. Coachman. What, may I take the harness I have on.
at harness, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 5: Poor master’s knock’d up at last.
at knocked up, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 42: How is Old Scratch and all our black friends below?
at old Scratch (n.) under old, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 14: Now Paddy the brogue he puts on, / Then struts with the pride of a Don.
at Paddy, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 12: My tout ensemble is the thing.
at thing, the, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Dead Alive (1783) 32: A wooden surtout lin’d with white satin.
at wooden surtout (n.) under wooden, adj.
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