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[UK] Pepys Diary 19 Feb. n.p.: Thence forth to Mr. Harper’s to drink a glass of purle.
at purl, n.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 7 Oct. n.p.: To White Hall on foot, calling at my father’s to change my long black cloak for a short one (long cloaks being now quite out).
at out, adv.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 27 June n.p.: This day, Mr. Holden sent me a beaver, which cost me £4 5s.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 8 Mar. n.p.: Then we set to it again till it was very late; and at last come in Sir William Wale, almost fuddled.
at fuddled, adj.
[UK] Pepys Diary 22 June n.p.: A Portugall lady [...] that hath dropped a child already since the Queen’s coming.
at drop, v.5
[UK] Pepys Diary 7 Sept. n.p.: [I] did feel her; which I am much ashamed of, but I did no more, though I had so much a mind to it that I spent in my breeches.
at feel, v.
[UK] Pepys Diary 22 Mar. n.p.: [He] that is a fumbler; and he and I called brothers.
at fumbler, n.
[UK] Pepys Diary 7 May n.p.: In the late business of Chimney Money, when all occupiers were to pay, it was questioned whether women were under that name to pay; and somebody rose and said that they were not occupiers, but occupied.
at occupy, v.
[UK] Pepys Diary (1866) 15 May 146: The Portugals have choused us, it seems, in the Island of Bombay, in the East Indies.
at chouse, v.
[UK] Pepys Diary 27 May n.p.: A woman sober, and no high-flyer, as he calls it.
at high-flyer, n.
[UK] Pepys Diary 24 Apr. (1876) II. 188: Up betimes, and with my salt eele went down in the parler and there got my boy and did beat him.
at salt eel (n.) under salt, n.3
[UK] Pepys Diary Nov. 15 (1894) 270: I to the ’Change, and thence Bagwell’s wife with much ado followed me through Moorfields to a blind alehouse, and there I did caress her and eat and drink.
at blind alehouse (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 16 Jan. n.p.: After some caresses, je l’ay foutee sous de la chaise deux times.
at foutre, v.
[UK] Pepys Diary 14 May n.p.: To church, it being Whit-Sunday; my wife very fine in a new yellow bird’s-eye hood, as the fashion is now.
at bird’s eye, n.
[UK] Pepys Diary 1 Apr. n.p.: How my Lord Treasurer did bless himself.
at bless oneself (v.) under bless, v.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 27 Apr. n.p.: Which puts [...] me into a great fear, that all my cake will be doe still.
at cake is dough under cake, n.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 26 May n.p.: In the evening by water to the Duke of Albermarle, whom I found mightily off the hooks, that the ships are not gone out of the River.
at off the hook(s) under hook, n.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 15 Feb. n.p.: At noon, with Creed to the Trinity House, where a very good dinner among the old soakers.
at soaker, n.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 28 Dec. n.p.: By coach to the King’s play-house, and there saw ‘The Scornful Lady’ well acted, Doll Common doing Abigail most excellently, and Knipp the widow very well.
at abigail, n.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 28 Oct. n.p.: He says that in the July fight both the Prince and Holmes had their bellyfuls, and were fain to go aside.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Pepys Diary 2 July n.p.: He was clapped up in the Hole.
at hole, n.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 29 Aug. n.p.: I find by all hands that the Court is at this day all to pieces, every man of a faction of one sort or another.
at all to pieces, adj.
[UK] Pepys Diary 15 Nov. n.p.: cited in Partridge DSUE (1984).
at make someone piss (v.) under piss, v.
[UK] Pepys Diary 29 Jan. n.p.: He tells me that Townsend, of the Wardrobe, is the veriest knave and bufflehead that ever he saw in his life.
at bufflehead, n.
[UK] Pepys Diary 25 Oct. 🌐 My wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl with my hand under her skirts; and, indeed, I was with my hand in her cunny.
at cunny, n.
[UK] Pepys Diary 17 June n.p.: I find my wife hath something in her gizzard that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up.
at gizzard, n.
[UK] Pepys Diary 23 Feb. n.p.: Sir R. Brookes overtook us coming to town; who played the jack with us all, and is a fellow that I must trust no more.
at play the jack (v.) under jack, n.2
[UK] Pepys Diary Apr. 15 (1893) 2285: I led her into a little blind alehouse within the walls, and there she and I alone fell to talk and baiser la and toker su mammailles.
at blind alehouse (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] Pepys Diary 7 Feb. in DSUE (1984).
at cockerel, n.
[UK] Pepys Diary VII 121: [I] did it backward, not having convenience to do it the other way.
at do it, v.1
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