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Fables and Tales choose

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[Scot] A. Ramsay ‘The Twa Cut-Purses’ Fables and Tales 35: In Borrowtown there was a Fair [...] Baith Lads and Lasses busked brawly [...] And lay out ony ora Bodles On sma Gimcracks that pleas’d their Nodles.
at boodle, n.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay ‘The Miser and Minos’ Fables and Tales 9: In short he famish’d midst his Plenty, / Which made surviving Kindred canty.
at canty, adj.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay ‘The Daft Bargain’ Fables and Tales 35: Content quoth Rab. – And slerg’d the rest o’t in his Gab.
at gab, n.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay ‘The Two Lizards’ Fables and Tales 26: What makes this grumbling in thy Gizzard?
at gizzard, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay ‘The Caterpillar and the Ant’ Fables and Tales 19: The Caterpillar was struck dumb / And never answer’d her a Mum.
at mum, n.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay ‘The Twa Cut-Purses’ Fables and Tales 35: In Borrowtown there was a Fair [...] Baith Lads and Lasses busked brawly [...] And lay out ony ora Bodles On sma Gimcracks that pleas’d their Nodles.
at noddle, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay ‘The Twa Cut-Purses’ Fables and Tales 36: Now possest of Rowth of Gear / Scour’d aff as lang’s the Cost was clear.
at scour, v.2
[Scot] A. Ramsay ‘The Chamaeleon’ Fables and Tales 23: Ye lied. And ye’re the Son of a Whore.
at sonofabitch, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Fables and Tales in Poems II (1800) 515: Ah me! you reverence’s sister, Ten times I carnally have – kist her.
at kiss, v.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Fables and Tales in Poems II (1800) 165: Whose kytes can streek out like raw plaider.
at kite, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Fables and Tales in Poems II (1800) 170: For nought delights him mair than knocking.
at knocking, n.
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