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[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 329: The gutter that car’d not a louse, Ran mournfully muddily by.
at not care a louse, v.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. 14: The Warld is rul’d by asses, And the Wise are sway’d by clink [F&H].
at ass, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 331: The Jolly Bender. Bacchus must now his power resign, I am the only god of wine. [Ibid.] 449: Bend, to drink.
at bend, v.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 374: Give me a brisk wench and clean straw, And I value not who rules the roast [sic].
at brisk, adj.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I 83: Madge that was buckled to Steenie.
at buckle, v.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I 48: Come, fill me a bumper, my jolly brave boys.
at bumper, n.2
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I 96: Sir, ye appear a cunning man; But this fine plot you’ll fail in [...] For I’ve a tinkler under tack That’s us’d to clout my cauldron.
at cauldron, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I 6: The world is rul’d by asses, And the wise are sway’d by chink.
at chink, n.1
[Scot] ‘Women and wine’ in A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. II 72: Th’inflaming doses, That set fire to your noses.
at dose, n.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 373: Love without money Will vanish like smoke [...] Down with your dust, A portion there must; Poor girls wou’d be glad To jump at a crust, Cou’d ye get it.
at down with one’s dust (v.) under dust, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I 441: He had a magpye That was very fly, And used for to murmur and chat [...] And the magpye Who was so very fly, He into a meeting-house gat; And as the old parson Was canting his lesson, Cry’d, what a pox wad ye be at?
at fly, adj.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I 6: Wine will make us red as roses [...] Come, let us fuddle all our noses.
at fuddle, v.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 359: The Fumbler’s Rant. Come carles a’ of famblers ha’[...] Since we have married wives that’s braw, And canna please them when ’tis late.
at fumbler, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 412: You girls of Venus game, That venture health and fame [...] Make lovers grow blind and lame.
at Venus’s game, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 374: I am a merry gut-scraper.
at gut-scraper (n.) under gut, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 379: Hodge of the Mill and buxom Nell. Young Roger of the mill [...] Put on his best apparel.
at hodge, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) l IV 380: There’s buxome Joan, it is well known She loves me as her life.
at joan, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 452: Jo, sweet-heart.
at joe, n.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II 137: And let us to Edinburgh go, Where she that’s bonny, May catch a Johnny, And never lead apes below.
at johnny, n.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 374: I was once an attorney at law, And after a knight of the post.
at knight of the post, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 412: You girls of Venus game [...] If men were so wise to value the prize Of the wares most fit for sale, What store of beaux would daub their clothes, To save a nose, by following those Who carry the milking-pail?
at milking pail, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II 178: She round about seeks Robin out, To slap it in his oxter. [Ibid.] 454: Oxter, arm-pit.
at oxter, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 426: The dregs of a piss-pot.
at pisspot, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 369: Dear Nelly [...] No lords in their lives take pleasure in their wives Like fellows that drive the plow.
at plough, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 426: The plush-coated quack, who, his fees to enlarge, Kills people by licence, and at their own charge.
at quack, n.1
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I 97: The malt-man is right cunning.
at right, adv.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 370: Young Roger came tapping At Dolly’s window [...] His courage he cool’d He found himself fool’d.
at roger, n.2
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 377: The bran is every other maid, Compar’d with thee, my smirky Nan.
at smirk, n.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I 72: Genty Tibby, and sonsy Nelly. [Ibid.] 455: Sonsy, fortunate, jolly.
at sonsy, adj.
[Scot] A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II 192: I’m but a young farmer, its true, And ye are the sprout of a laird; But I have milk-cattle enow, And roth good rucks in my yard.
at sprout, n.1
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