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[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V ii: Adad! I have a Thought in my Head, Madam.
at adad!, excl.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Ad’s waunds, and heart! Master Manly! [Ibid.] IV i: ’Ads wauntlikins! as soft and plump as a Marrow-Pudding.
at ad’s (heart’s) wounds! (excl.) under ads, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V i: la. grace: O fy! there is not a more elegant Beauty in Town, when she’s drest. man: In my eye, Madam, she that’s early drest has ten times her elegance.
at all my eye, phr.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V iii: Blood and Thunder!
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband II i: Very well, says Roger, you shall see what our Meyster will say to ye! Your Meyster? says he; your Meyster may kiss my ----.
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V iii: O Lud! how her Back will be up then.
at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Ay, ay, they’ll ne’er want for a Belly-Full there!
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband IV i: c. bas.: Well, the Devil fetch me, if I shall not be heartily glad to see thee well settled, child. myr.: And may the Black Gentleman tuck me under his Arm at the same time, if I shall not think myself obliged to you as long as I live.
at black man (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband II i: People may, as it were, think one Impertinent, or be out of Humour, you know, when a Body comes to ask for one’s Own.
at body, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V ii: Undone! undone! My Lord has just bolted out upon the Man, and is hearing all his pitiful Story over.
at bolt, v.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: His being a Booby; that last Will of an obstinate old Uncle gave it to me.
at booby, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband II i: I’gad I don’t like his Looks – he seems a little smoaky – I believe I had as good brush off – If I stay, I don’t know but he may ask me some odd Questions.
at brush-off, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband II i: You would have the Impudence to Sup, and be busy with her.
at get busy (v.) under busy, adj.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband IV i: On Sunday, we are to be at the what-d’ye-call-it ... Assembly.
at what-d’you-call-it, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V ii: Cods my Life! paying Money? is the Man distracted?
at cod, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V i: Death, Madam!
at death!, excl.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband IV i: The dickens! has this Rogue of a Count played us another Trick then?
at dickens, the, phr.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: She was Wet-Nurse to every Mother’s Babe of ’um.
at every mother’s son, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: I am now going to a party at Quadrille, only to piddle with a little of it [i.e. money], at poor two guineas a fish.
at fish, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Flesh! I thought we should never ha’ got hither!
at flesh!, excl.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V i: Two pair of lac’d Shoes, and those stond [sic] me in three Paund three Shillings a Pair too.
at stand in, v.2
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: From thence [...] crowd to the Hazard table, throw a familiar Levant upon some sharp lurching Man of Quality, and if he demands his money, turn it off with a loud Laugh.
at levant, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Throw a familiar Levant upon some sharp lurching Man of Quality.
at lurch, v.1
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband II i: Hah! Miss Pert. [Ibid.] V ii: And for you Mrs. Hot-upon’t [...] Did you know, Hussy, that you were within two Minutes of marrying a Pick-Pocket?
at Miss, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband II i: A Plague on him. th’ Monkey has gin us the slip, I think.
at monkey, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V i: What a mortal poor Devil is a Husband!
at mortal, adj.1
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband II i: You! you think I’m too forward! sure! Brother Mud! your Head’s too heavy to think of anything but your Belly.
at mud, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband III i: My Stars! and you would really live in London half the year, to be sober in it?
at my stars!, excl.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Ods wookers! [...] Ods Guts and Gizards, Madam!
at ods, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Ods-bud! Master, you’re a wise Mon.
at ods blood! (excl.) under ods, n.
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