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[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:6 6: All strain’d their throats to bear a bob.
at bear a bob, v.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:3 12: Where the lewd Punk and Jack of dandy / Carouse at Night o’er English Brandy.
at jack-a-dandy, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:4 4: Ads Heart! how prettily they talk?
at adsheart! (excl.) under ads, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:12 3: When quaint Aminadab had done / What better he had ne’er begun.
at Aminadab, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:4 24: We also had, to gratify us, / A Quaking Song from Ananias, / Who sung it as a Man may say, / His Chorus being Yea and Nay.
at yea and nay (man), n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:3 6: White-Apron Whores in home-spun Dresses.
at white apron (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:10 11: Some fat-ars’d Sows and lusty Loobies / Were got on Galloways and Hobbies.
at fat-arse, adj.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:7 10: When at push-a-pike we play With beauty, who shall win the day?
at play at push-pin (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:2 21: Before, a Man may be mistaken, / And ’stead of saving, lose his Bacon.
at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:3 19: Next came a Pack of mincing Jades, / Attending as her Grace’s Maids / Of Honour, tho’ alas! the Title / Avail’d the Baggages but little.
at baggage, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:6 10: Your poor Deserts would scare be able / To find you Trouzers to your Bauble.
at bauble, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:3 25: Fond to oblige my wand’ring Eyes, / With Lady Betty’s Legs and Thighs, / Exempt from any wicked Thought / Of Love’s inviting Beauty Spot.
at beauty spot (n.) under beauty, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:9 7: So Ruffians, who, with Crows and Betties, / Break Houses, when it dark and late is.
at betty, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:5 6: The Lab’rers by the Masons hir’d, / Bilk’d of their Wages, soon grew tir’d.
at bilk, v.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:4 2: One Sempstress in her Hut a stitching, Another just strol’d out a bitching.
at bitch, v.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:5 18: A Bite more knavish than the Oak, / That has so many Hundreds broke.
at bite, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:2 23: Bless me, I thought, sure he that’s wise, / Can see thro’ these transparent Lies.
at bless me! (excl.) under bless, v.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:3 27: In his high-flying Trousers drest, / With Hat squeez’d down upon his Block.
at block, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:7 20: So the old Babylonian blouze, And her demure fanatic Spouse.
at blowse, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:2 19: They would bob their Ladies of a merry job.
at bob, v.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:4 14: Amongst a Crowd of Sots, half boozy, / With ev’ry one his tattling Huzzy.
at boozy, adj.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:2 3: The bouncing Quack’s alluring Babble / Prevailing with the list’ning Rabble.
at bouncing, adj.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:2 11: Get you to Bed, you stagg’ring Beast. / I won’t, you Buck, at your Request.
at buck, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:10 14: [That] brave General Cornutus, With Head like Buck, and Heart like Brutus.
at buckface (n.) under buck, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:1 6: With Stale Quibbles, Puns, and bulls.
at bull, n.2
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:8 14: Because they love like Bully Huff, / To Things decide by Kick and Cuff .
at bully huff (n.) under bully, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:6 9: O let the Louse forsake the Soldier, / To dwell upon the Bayliff’s shoulder! / And cursed be the horny Thumb, / That parts the Vermin and the Bum.
at bum, n.2
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:2 25: Punks, Strolers, Market Dames and Bunters.
at bunter, n.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:9 6: Who had full Twenty Years in Town / Retail’d her Favours up and down, / ’Till she had burnt with Claps and P—xes, / More standing Ware than Sampson’s Foxes.
at burn, v.
[UK] N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:4 18: The Fro believing from my Joaks, / I fancy’d not her Butter-Box.
at butterbox (n.) under butter, n.1
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