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A Match at Midnight choose

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[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight I i: tim: What have you bumming out there goodman fyle? smith: A vice sir, that I would faine be furnisht with a little money upon’t.
at bum, v.3
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight IV i: tim: Ha, ha, Grandmother, Ile tell thee the best jest. sue: Prithee chicke.
at chick, n.1
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight IV i: Hee’s a Knight abounding in deeds of charity, his name Sir Nicholas Nemo.
at St Nicholas’s clergyman, n.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight I i: A clout, a clout Sim.
at clout, n.1
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight I i: The College of extravaging, Eclipt Bridewell.
at college, n.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight II i: Are they none of Duke Humfreyes furies, doe you thinke, that they devis’d this plot in Pauls to get a dinner?
at dine with Duke Humphrey (v.) under dine, v.
[UK] Rowley A Match at Midnight I i: A dogge, a very dog, there is more mercy in a paire of unbrib’d Bailiffes.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Rowley A Match at Midnight IV i: If Iohn haue not told him, I’le be hang’d.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight V i: Doe not you passe under the name of Sue shortheeles, minion?
at short heels, n.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight V i: I pray tumble downe of her Mary-pones, and aske her father plessing?
at marrowbones, n.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight V i: I knew you were a crafty Merchant, you helped my Master to such bargaines vpon the Exchange last night.
at merchant, n.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight I i: I tell ’em I haue given over Brokering, moyling for mucke and trash.
at muck, n.1
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight II i: Young, say she be young, young Mutton’s sweete [...] if like an old Cocke he with young Mutton meetes, he feedes like a Cucklold.
at mutton, n.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight IV i: A neate man, a proper man, a welfavoured man, a handsome man.
at neat, adj.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight II i: moll: What a suiter have I got, I am sorry you are so bad an Archer sir. eare.: Why Bird, why Bird? moll.: Why, to shoote at Buts, when you shou’d use prick-shafts, short shooting will loose ye the game.
at shaft, n.
[UK] Rowley A Match at Midnight I i: Shew her cozen a round paire of heeles.
at show (someone) a (clean) pair of heels (v.) under show, v.
[UK] Rowley A Match at Midnight I i: O monster Father, looke if hee bee not drunke, the very sight of him makes me long for a cup of sixe.
at sixes (n.) under six, n.1
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight I i: ’Snailes my shooes are as pale as the cheek of a stewd Pander.
at ’snails!, excl.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight I i: These wicked Elder Brothers, that sweare refuse them, and drink nothing but wicked Sacke, when we sweare nothing but niggers noggers, make a meal out of a bloate Herring, water it with four shillings Beere, and then sweare wee have dined as well as my Lord Master [...] Niggers noggers, I thought he had bene sicke. [Ibid.] I i: Sniggers, what does the Divell and a Saint both in a signe? [Ibid.] II i: Niggers I haue read of her in the Mirrour of Knighthood.
at ’sniggers!, excl.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight I i: ’Snailes my shooes are as pale as the cheek of a stewd Pander.
at stewed, adj.1
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight I i: I tell ’em I haue given over Brokering, moyling for mucke and trash.
at trash, n.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight II i: I ha’ heard of that Widgeon, I ha’ been taken for him.
at widgeon, n.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight II i: ’Sounds, was that her manners to take away Randalls cups?
at zounds!, excl.
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight [not in 1633 1st edn] I i: He’s out of cash, and thou know’st, by Cutter’s law we are bound to relieve one another.
at cutter, n.2
[UK] Rowley Match at Midnight [not in 1633 1st edn] I i: A bag Of a hundred pound at least all in round shillings: Which I made my last night’s purchase from a lawyer.
at purchase, n.
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