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[UK] ‘Momus Medlar’ ‘Macbeth’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 113: The knife that I thought I saw, / Was nought but my Eye Betty Martin.
at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
[UK] T.H. ‘Punch’s Apotheosis’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 123: We, to please great Johnny Bull should plan a jeer, / Dance a bang up theatrical cotillion.
at bang-up, adj.
[UK] ‘Drury Lane Hustings’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 83: The newest of all is the new House of Commons, / ’Tis a rickety sort of a bantling I’m told, / It will die of old age when it’s seven years old.
at bantling, n.
[UK] ‘The Theatre’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 108: Leaning forward, Jennings lost his hat; / Down from the gallery the beaver flew.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] ‘Momus Medlar’ ‘Macbeth’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 112: I’m not fond of these jokes: / This must be some blade of the brain.
at blade, n.
[UK] ‘The Theatre’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 117: They sung a quartetto in grand blubberation; / The stranger cried, Oh! Mrs. Haller cried, Ah!
at blubberation, n.
[UK] ‘Architectural Atoms’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 92: Some half baked rover [...] Soon quits his Cyprian for his married brick.
at brick, n.
[UK] ‘Architectural Atoms’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 92: The dustman, bubbled flat, / thinks ’tis for him, and doffs his fan-tail’d hat.
at bubbled, adj.1
[UK] ‘Architectural Atoms’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 92: The dustman, bubbled flat, / thinks ’tis for him, and doffs his fan-tail’d hat.
at bubbled, adj.2
[UK] ‘George Barnwell Travestie’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 120: His uncle [...] Refus’d to come down with the rhino.
at come down with (v.) under come down, v.1
[UK] ‘George Barnwell Travesti’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 119: Determin’d to be quite the crack o, / He lounged at the Adam and Eve, And call’d for his gin and tobacco.
at crack, n.1
[UK] T.H. ‘Punch’s Apotheosis’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 127: I’m fagg’d to death, and out of breath.
at fagged (out), adj.
[UK] ‘Momus Medlar’ ‘Macbeth’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 114: Hark, hark, ’tis the signal by goles.
at by goll! (excl.) under goll, n.2
[UK] ‘Momus Medlar’ ‘Macbeth’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 112: My stars, in the air here’s a knife! I’m sure it cannot be a hum.
at hum, n.2
[UK] ‘The Theatre’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 105: All is bustle, squeeze, row, jabbering, and jam.
at jam, n.1
[UK] ‘George Barnwell Travestie’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 121: I would pummel and lam her well.
at lam, v.1
[UK] ‘George Barnwell Travestie’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 120: Make Nunky surrender his dibs, / Rub his pate with a pair of lead towels.
at lead towel (n.) under lead, n.
[UK] T.H. ‘Punch’s Apotheosis’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 125: Wife, come to forgive what your black lover did [...] Why, neger, so eager about your rib immaculate?
at nigger, n.1
[UK] ‘George Barnwell Travestie’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 120: Make nunky surrender his dibs.
at nunky, n.
[UK] W.S. ‘Tale of Drury Lane’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 55: What are they fear’d on? fools! ’od rot ’em!
at od rot it! under od, n.
[UK] ‘The Theatre’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 108: Pat was the urchin’s name, a red hair’d youth, / Fonder of purl and skittel grounds than truth.
at purl, n.1
[UK] W.T.F. ‘Loyal Effusion’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 1: While Afric’s sons exclaim from shore to shore, / ‘Quashee ma boo!’ the slave trade is no more.
at quashie, n.
[UK] T.H. ‘Punch’s Apotheosis’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 126: Old Polony like a sausage, [...] exclaim’d ‘Rat! Rat!’.
at rat, v.1
[UK] T.H. ‘Punch’s Apotheosis’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 124: When spooneys on two knees implore the aid of sorcery.
at spoony, n.
[UK] ‘George Barnwell Travestie’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 121: He whips a long knife in his gizzard [...] Had I stuck to my pruins and figs, / I ne’er had stuck nunky at Camberwell.
at stick, v.
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