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The London Hermit choose

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[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 51: You are the canting bawler that broke down one of my statues.
at autem-bawler (n.) under autem, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 51: I be’s coom’d from Babylon [...] Great London itself.
at Babylon, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 30: This clodpate’s hat, wig and frock, may do it.
at clodpate, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 17: You were always a dead fag [i.e. at Cambridge University], and I was a blood.
at fag, n.2
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 19: You can keep pace with them in flash and expenses.
at flash, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 15: He’s a very cross crusty grumps.
at grumpus, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 9: You hound, I was your friend when you hadn’t another.
at hound, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 60: Dang my buttons! here’s a fine kick-up.
at kick-up, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 9: So you’ve picked up the mocusses [sic] in the Indies [...] Never look’d after me.
at mopus, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 70: The defender is obstropolos, and has lick’d I and John Grum.
at obstropolous, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 20: Bite. I wish we had dinner [...] I’m quite peckish. Poz. You peck’d all the way at the ham and cold fowls.
at peck, v.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 20: Bite. I wish we had dinner [...] I’m quite peckish. Poz. You peck’d all the way at the ham and cold fowls.
at peckish, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 17: Off I spank’d for Dorsetshire.
at spank, v.2
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 8: They’ve rare stingo at home, and yet come drinking our taplash.
at tap-lash (n.) under tap, n.4
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 9: Now I shall be twitted with former favours.
at twit, v.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 8: You damn’d twopenny poney-race.
at twopenny, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe London Hermit (1794) 61: He’s a wet Christian.
at wet Quaker (n.) under wet, adj.1
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