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Tony Lumpkin in Town choose

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[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 29: Now, bang me, if I know what trade that is.
at bang, v.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 23: I am the very colliflower [sic] of the mode.
at cauliflower, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 18: Could you not say at once that your were a fidler [sic], and not come round to it with such a circumbendibus.
at circumbendibus, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 20: Enter Tim with a violin Here’s the coal-box.
at coal-box (n.) under coal, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 29: If you come the gentleman usher [...] you’ll absolutely knock your head against my fistis [sic].
at come the..., v.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 28: tim: And his man Frank says he’s a dillitante? tony: Oh, he’s a great dilly.
at dilli, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 9: If he wants a coat cut in the kick, who can shew him? I – A tasty nab? Why Tim. [Ibid.] 17: Tony.: Tim, do they fit me? Tim: Quite the kick.
at kick, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 28: Tim.: This cousin of your’s is a tip-top macaroni. Tony.: Yes, he’s a famous mac.
at macaroni, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 10: A masquerade to this house last night, was a quaker’s meeting. Such a noise and uproar.
at quaker’s meeting, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 14: The monkey was a macaroni; and those beaux [...] make as much use of a woman, as they do of a sword; they keep both merely for show.
at monkey, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 26: He is mightly like Matt Muggins the exciseman.
at muggins, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 9: If he wants a coat cut in the kick, who can shew him? I – A tasty nab? Why Tim.
at nab, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 28: You’re to paint fine large powder’d pretty wigs upon every head in this room, at [...] half a crown a nob.
at nob, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 9: I’ll be with them in a pig’s whisper.
at in a pig’s whisper (adv.) under pig’s whisper, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 10: Give those cards to Pompey and bid him deliver them.
at Pompey, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 13: If you’d let me bring in a little queen with me, some night or other [...] you’d make me as happy as a king.
at queen, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 20: That fellow has got a tatler, strike him plump.
at tatler, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780) 15: [I] saw Lord Thingumme’s fine coach.
at thingummy, n.
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