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[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair II i: If thou shou’dst cry, it would make streaks down thy Face; as the Tears of the Tankard do upon my fat Hosts Belly-pieces.
at belly-piece (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair II i: Indeed, towards you, I am somewhat frigid; but some in the World know I have a Colt’s Tooth.
at have a colt’s tooth (v.) under colt, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair II i: I hear there’s a flaming French Beau come to Town.
at flaming, adj.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair V i: Come come, you brace of Fopdoodles.
at fopdoodle, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair Prologue: Silly Grubstreet Songs worse than Tom Farthing.
at Grub Street, adj.
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair II i: Yes, he has found Wit in a Jack Pudding.
at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair I i: I have been visited this Morning, by three most confounded Fops [...] Trim, Sir Humphrey Noddy, and Mr. Oldwit [...] How now, Monsieur Cutbeard? what makes you at Bury-Fair?
at Mr, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair II i: What a Pox, is this Puss my Wife here?
at puss, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair III i: Why, ’tis a scabby day.
at scabby, adj.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair V i: An old Soaker, with [...] a red Face, a Brain clouded with Fumes.
at soaker, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Bury Fair II i: Ounds, this Count will make my damn’d affected Toad so proud, the Devil would not live with her.
at toad, n.
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