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[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 50 n.p.: I don’t care a Farthing for you.
at not care a farthing, v.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 66 n.p.: There are another Pack of Dogs [pickpockets/thieves] said to be whelped in Alsatia, now in Ruins.
at Alsatia, n.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 71 n.p.: Bambouzling is exploded; a Shat is a Tatler.
at bamboozle, v.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 12 n.p.: Gamesters, banterers, biters are, in their several species, the modern men of wit.
at banter, v.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 12 n.p.: A Biter, who is a dull Fellow, that tells you a Lye with a grave Face, and laughs at you for knowing him no better than to believe him.
at biter, n.1
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 71 166: If a Virgin blushes, we no longer cry she Blues.
at blue, v.1
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 33 n.p.: These rascally Cits— ’Ounds, why should there not be a Tax to make these Dogs widen their Gates?
at cit, n.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 24: Tom. Drybones, for his generous Loss of Youth and Health.
at dry-bone(s) (n.) under dry, adj.1
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 3 n.p.: I [...] therefore take this publick Occasion, to admonish a Young Nobleman, who came fluster’d into the Box last Night.
at flustered, adj.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 88 n.p.: Those who recount strange Accidents and Circumstances which have no Manner of Foundation in Truth, when they design to do Mischief are comprehended under the Appellation of Gunners [...] Gunners therefore are the Pest of Society; but the Gunsters often the Diversion. The Gunner is destructive and hated; the Gunster innocent, and laugh’d at.
at gunner, n.1
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 26: I expect Hush-Money to be regularly sent for every Folly or Vice any one commits in this whole Town.
at hush money, n.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler 26: I never Jaw above the First Act of a Play.
at jaw, v.1
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 87 n.p.: We had an indifferent Breakfast, but the Mounseers never had such a Dinner in all their Lives.
at mounseer, n.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 180 (1804) 346: There is a Mug-House near Long-Acre.
at mughouse (n.) under mug, n.1
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 26 n.p.: My Reason for troubling you [...] is put a Stop, if it may be, to an insinuating, increasing Set of People, who [...] assume the Name of Pretty Fellows; nay, and even get new Names, as you very well hint. Some of them I have heard calling to one another as I have sat at White’s and St. James’s, by the Names of, Betty, Nelly, and so forth. You see them accost each other with effeminate Airs.
at nellie, n.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 33 n.p.: He may run into Passion, and cry, Odsbodikins, you do not say right.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] J. Addison Tatler 100 3: Several who were Plumbs, or very near it, became Men of moderate Fortunes.
at plum, n.2
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 77 n.p.: A Cane is Part of the Dress of a Prig.
at prig, n.1
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 71:: He that drinks ’till he stares, is no more Tow-Row, but Honest.
at tow row, adj.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 71 n.p.: Bambouzling is exploded; a Shat is a Tatler.
at shat, n.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 83 n.p.: How I am mortify’d when he is putting on my fourth Pair of Stockings on these poor Spindles of mine?
at spindle, n.1
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 22: The best humour’d impertinent Thing in the World.
at thing, n.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 33: Thunder, Furies, and Damnation! I’ll cut your Ears of [sic] you Fellow.
at thunder!, excl.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 230 n.p.: The Jacks, and others of that Kidney are very uppish, and alert upon’t.
at uppish, adj.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 12: Pox on it! don’t talk to me, I am VoweI’d by the Count, and cursedly out of Humour.
at vowel, v.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 71 n.p.: When to the plain Garb of Gown and Band a Spark adds an inconsistent long Wig, we do not say now he Boshes, but there goes a Smart Fellow.
at bosh, v.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 208: Such an easy Companion [...] throws out a little Flattery, or lets a Man silently flatter himself in his Superiority to him. If you take Notice, there is hardly a rich Man in the World, who has not such a led Friend.
at led captain, n.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 230 n.p.: I believe you that I banter’d you in my Last like a Country Put.
at country put (n.) under country, adj.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 226 n.p.: He found himself run down as a superficial prating Quack.
at run down, v.
[UK] R. Steele Tatler No. 230 n.p.: Will Hazard has got the Hipps, having lost to the Tune of Five hundr’d Pound.
at hip, the, n.
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