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Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 37: Frighten them from attempting to put their Parchment Dabs upon the Shoulders of the Society.at dab, n.2
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 37: Frighten them from attempting to put their Parchment Dabs upon the Shoulders of the Society. Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 29: The Dinner now being brought to the Table [...] and as soon as their Food was sanctify’d with a short Grace, they all fell to Grinding and Snuffling.at grind, v.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 16: They dwindled from an eminent Club of Experimental Philosophers, into a little Cinacal Cabal of Half-pint Moralists.at half-pint, adj.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 48: They beheld the Bear playing fifty Monkey tricks, as if he was as mad as a March Hare.at monkey tricks, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 63: Till they [i.e. one’s cheeks] were grown as unsizeable as the swanking Buttocks of a Wapping Hostess.at swanking, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 234: They commonly Tipple on till as Drunk as Lords.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 84: Their magnanimous High and Mightinesses should be made the Scoff of every boozy Jack-a-dandy.at jack-a-dandy, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 270: The Lady-Abbess of the Brothel-Monastry never wanting among the Salacious Quality of her old Acquaintance [...] Ready-money Chapmen for any of her Punchable Nuns.at abbess, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 23: What Mortal, that has Sense or Thought, / Would strip Jack Adams of his Coat? [Ibid.] 299: A near Neighbour to St. John of Jerusalem, who at present flourishes his Banner before a noted old tavern in Jack Adams his Parish.at Jack Adams, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 77: A sweaty Crew of Tag-Rag, and Bob-Tail.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 271: Thence turn Fleet-street Stroler in a Sarsnet-Hood and White Apron, only a fit Mistress for a Water-Lane Pick-pocket.at white apron (n.) under apron, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 250: Town Sparks and Ladies may have recourse to their Gardens, and there, without the danger of a reforming Constable, give their Arses a Salad.at give someone’s arse a salad under arse, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 48: They beheld the Bear playing fifty Monkey tricks, as if he was as mad as a March Hare.at ...a (March) hare under mad as..., adj.
A Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs (1756) 75: Then, like Whores at a Buttock-Ball, they begin to vie Honestly one with another. [Ibid.] 163: The Weekly dancing Club: OR, buttock-ball in St. Giles [which] consisted cheifly [sic] of Bullies, Libertines, and Strumpets’. [Ibid.] 171: This Buttock-Ball, or Diabolical Academy, where all Manner of Vice was promiscuously Taught at a small Expence, [...] was begun, above thirty Years since, by a half-bred Dancing-Master, over the Cole-Yard Gateway into Drury-Lane; a Place so conveniently seated among Punks and Fidlers, that the Mungrel Undertaker was always sure of Musick, and equally certain of a Crowd of Whores to Dance to it.at buttock-ball, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 269: For the better Promotion of the good old Trade of basket-Making, she got an experienced Covy of Salacious Wag-Tails to settle a Club at her Cuniculary Ware-House.at basket-making (n.) under basket, n.1
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 94: The Mask’d Ladies [...] open the Wicket of Love’s Bear-Garden, to any bold Sportsman who has a venturesome Mind to give a Run to his Puppy.at bear-garden (n.) under bear, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 283: The first Health that is begun in the Society, is, To the best in Christendom.at best in Christendom, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 64: A Leadenhall Butcher would be bitching his Wife, for not only opening her Placket, but her Pocket Apron to his Rogue of a Journeyman.at bitch, v.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 294: Snaffle Biters [...] who make it their principal Business to steal Horses, talk what rare Prads and Gallopers they had met with in their Time.at snaffle biter (n.) under bite, v.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 269: May he that on the Rump so doats, / Be damn’d as deep as Doctor Oates, / That Scandal unto all black Coats.at black coat (n.) under black, adj.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 302: Come all ye merry Beaus and Blades, / Who love the charming Fiddle.at blade, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 108: Dancers could scarce mind their Steps [...] or a Libertine shake his Heels with his charming Blowzabella.at blouzabella, n.
A Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs (1756) 24: A Merry Gentleman, who had often hazarded his own Bolt-sprit, be steering a vitious Course among the Rocks of Venus, having observed [...] that abundance of both Sexes had sacrificed their Noses to the God Priapus.at boltsprit, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 53: Many other such comical, clownish, surly, antick, moody, booby Faces.at booby, adj.1
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 228: When the Mauts and Rum Culls have recruited our Store, / We’ll return to our Boozing. O Pity the Poor.at boozing, n.
A Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs (1756) 83: Alexander Bounce, a fencing-master.at bounce, n.1
A Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs (1756) 61: Fit only to nibble upon a Brown-George in some foreign Garrison.at brown george (n.) under brown, adj.2
Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs (1756) 88: Teach her ill Humours, and provoke the Shrew / To make him both a Buck and Beggar too.at buck, n.1
A Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs (1756) 269: The less Savage four-leg’d Creature, / Lives but according to his Nature; / But the Bug’ranto two-leg’d Brute, / Pursues his Lust contrary to’t.at buggeranto, n.
Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs (1756) 100: Loudly repeating some new Verses, hammer’d out of his dull Noddle for next Bumfodder Bill, that it might first make People laugh till they were ready to bedung themselves and do them the Service of a Paper-Muckender.at bum-fodder (n.) under bum, n.1
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