1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy V i: If your Master has the Estate he talks of, why not do’t above-board?at above board, adv.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy Act V: clar.: Who makes thee cry out thus, poor Brass? brass: Why, your husband, madam; he’s in his altitudes here.at in one’s altitudes (adj.) under altitudes, n.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: He sets his Arms a kimbo, cocks his saucy Hat in my Face, turns about upon his ungracious Heel, as much as to say Kiss --------.at kiss my arse!, excl.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy III ii: You must know I went round the Bush, and round the Bush, before I came to the matter.at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy II ii: ’Tis my Rogue of a Son has laid his Bird-lime Fingers on’t.at birdlime, adj.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: I must fix my Affairs quickly, or Madame Fortune will be playing some of her Bitch Tricks with me.at bitch, n.1
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy II ii: I wish my old hobbling Mother han’t been blabbing something here she shou’d not do.at blab, v.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: dick: Who is this good Woman, Flippanta? flip: A Gin of all Trades; an old daggling Cheat that hobbles from House to House to Bubble Ladies of their Mony.at bubble, v.1
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy II ii: But hast thou said a little something to her, Chicken, for an expiring Lover ha?at chicken, n.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy II i: Cods-fish, strike him, Madam, and let my Lady go your halves. There’s no Sin in plundering a Husband.at cod, n.1
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: dick: Who is this good Woman, Flippanta? flip.: A Gin of all Trades; an old daggling Cheat that hobbles from House to House to Bubble Ladies of their Mony.at daggle-tailed, adj.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy i: An old dangling chet, that hobbles about from house to house to bubble the ladies of their money [F&H].at dangle, v.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy II i: Cods-fish, strike him, Madam, and let my Lady go your halves. There’s no Sin in plundering a Husband.at halvers, n.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy II i: mon.: If she did but know what part I take in her Sufferings. flip.: Mighty obscure. mon.: Well, I’ll say no more; but —flip.: All Hebrew.at Hebrew, n.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: The Rogue had a Kettle-drum to his Father, who was hang’d for robbing a Church].at kettledrum, n.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: A Woman must indeed be of a mechanick Mold, who is either troubled or pleas’d with any thing her Husband can do to her.at mechanic, adj.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: He’s always shaking his Heels with the Ladies, and his Elbows with the Lords.at shake a leg (v.) under shake, v.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy II ii: aram.: The Stars have done this. clar.: The pretty little Twinklers.at twinklers, n.
1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy V ii: So, thats a wipe for me now, because I did not give her a New-Years-Gift.at wipe, n.