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[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion IV i: Evadne is flye-blowne, I cannot love her.
at fly-blown, adj.
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion I i: Then must I use my Bodkin ’twill never please else [...] Wee Taylors are the men [...] Ladies cannot live without.
at bodkin, n.1
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion I i: Now and then look for a Cabbich leafe, or an odde remnant to cloath my bashful buttocks.
at cabbage, n.1
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion II i: [to a man] Deare, when we are married Ile have such a one; Shall I not chicken?
at chicken, n.
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion IV i: He fed upon his god; but he being angry Scalded his Chops.
at chops, n.1
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion I i: Come hither love, sweet chucke.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion IV i: If you cann’t, here’s them that can ferrit in a Cunny burow without a provocative, Ile warrant you.
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion I i: You appeare fresh as a City Bridegroome, That has sign’d his wife a warrant for the Grafting hornes.
at graft, v.1
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion IV i: Hang Chastity.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion IV i: No more I say: it is a percell of excellent Mutton: Ile cut it up myselfe.
at mutton, n.
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion III i: If our Hell afford a Divell, but I see none Unlesse he appeare in a delicious remnant of Nim’d Sattin.
at nim, v.
[UK] T. Rawlins Rebellion I i: But pox o’ the fashion.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] J.R. Lowell Rebellion in Complete Writings (2008) 164: It is a curious jumble of American sense and Southern highfaluting.
at highfalutin, n.
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