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[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 63: I cannot bend me knee, nor take off my Beaver.
at beaver, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 66: I’ll give him a passport to Winchester Bilboas.
at bilbo, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 23: My sister Blowsabella born as high and noble as the Attorney.
at blouzabella, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 45: If Sir George doesn’t [...] blow me [i.e. discover] I may, I think, marry her.
at blow, v.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 66: Hold thy clapper.
at clapper, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 34: This new actor you brag of – that crack of your company.
at crack, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 38: Oh such a merry, civil crazy crackbrain.
at crackbrain, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 49: You’d disgust her, you flat fish.
at flat fish (n.) under flat, adj.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 19: I carry my purse of gold in my pocket [...] there’s twenty pictures of his majesty.
at king’s picture(s) (n.) under king, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 5: Sheer off with your sanctified poop.
at poop, n.2
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats (1792) 70: And I hope you will next introduce a Grandson to me, young Sly Boots.
at slyboots (n.) under sly, adj.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Wild Oats II iii: I’d teach ’em to bring a gentleman’s son tramboozing about the country.
at trampooze, v.
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