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The Soldier’s Fortune choose

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[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: I had rather all the relations I have were dead; a-dad, I had.
at adad!, excl.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I ii: Indeed, such another charming animal [...] ’tis an unspeakable blessing to lie all night by a horse-load of diseases; a beastly, unsavoury, old groaning, grunting, wheezing wretch.
at animal, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune IV i: The devil’s an ass, sir, and here’s a health to all those that defy the devil.
at ass, n.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune IV ii: Hoa up, hoa up! So, avast there, sir!
at avast!, excl.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune III i: If my design but succeed upon this baboon, I’ll be canonized.
at baboon, n.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: She’s meat for thy master, old boy; I have my belly-full of her every night.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: I know I’m a blockhead for’t, and she’ll use me like a blockhead too.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: She’s a hummer; such a bona roba, ah!
at bona roba, n.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: Bubbies! oh law, there’s bubbies! – odd, I’ll bite ’em; odd, I will!
at bubby, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: Let’s huzza the Bulkers.
at bulker, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: I shall be ere long as greasy as an Alsation bully.
at bully, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune IV ii: Come hither, hussy, you little canary-bird.
at canary, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: sir dav.: Trade! humph, what trade? [...] beau.: Why trade of whore and no whore, caterwauling in jest.
at caterwaul, v.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune III i: Why, chicken, where’s the remedy?
at chicken, n.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: O crimine! who’s yonder?
at criminy!, excl.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: Damme, madam, who’s that?
at damme!, excl.
[UK] Otway The Soldier’s Fortune III i: Damn her! I shall never enjoy her without ravishing.
at damn, v.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: Smooth rogue! who the devil is this fellow?
at who the devil...?, phr.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: The best in the world, dear dog.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune III i: I would be sure to be rid of you first, that you might not dog me.
at dog, v.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: Faugh, ye lousy red-coat rake-hells!
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: Of all rogues, I would not be a fool-monger.
at fool-monger (n.) under fool, n.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: Gemini! what would become of me?
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: What an old goat’s this!
at goat, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: I’ll have three whores a day, to keep love out of my head.
at have, v.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: She’s a hummer; such a bona roba, ah!
at hummer, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune IV i: Therefore are you to be murdered to-night [...] you Jack Straw, you.
at jack straw (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: Bubbies! oh law, there’s bubbies! – odd, I’ll bite ’em; odd, I will!
at law!, excl.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune III i: He’s none of your overgrown, lubberly Flanders jades.
at lubberly, adj.
[UK] Otway Soldier’s Fortune II i: She’s meat for thy master, old boy; I have my belly-full of her every night.
at meat for your master (n.) under meat, n.
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