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True Character of a Scold choose

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[UK] Poor Robin True Character of a Scold 4: She not cares a straw for Constable or Cucking-stool.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] Poor Robin True Character of a Scold 6: Being asham’d to go into any Good Society [...] makes him seek blinde Bubbing-schools to hide himself in from her fury.
at bubbing, n.
[UK] Poor Robin True Character of a Scold 6: She [...] ferrets his Haunts abroad worse than a needy Bawd does a decay’d Bully’s.
at bully, n.1
[UK] ‘Poor Robin’ True Character of a Scold 5: She [...] has either quite forgot his Name, or else she likes it not; which makes her Rebaptize him with more noble Titles, as White-liver’d Raskal, Drunken sot, Sneaking Ninkompoop.
at white-livered, adj.
[UK] Poor Robin True Character of a Scold 5: She [...] has either quite forgot his Name, or else she likes it not; which makes her Rebaptize him with more noble Titles, as White-liver’d Raskal, Drunken sot, Sneaking Ninkompoop, or pitiful lowsy Tom Farthing.
at nincompoop, n.
[UK] ‘Poor Robin’ True Character of a Scold 5: She [...] has either quite forgot his Name, or else she likes it not; which makes her Rebaptize him with more noble Titles, as White-liver’d Raskal, Drunken sot, Sneaking Ninkompoop, or pitiful lowsy Tom Farthing.
at tom farthing (n.) under tom, n.1
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