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[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor V iii: A more cowardly rogue I never saw. He hung on arse more than a bear going to a stake.
at hang an arse under arse, n.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor III ii: ser.: Thieves, thieves! [...] The street door, my lord, is open. mon.: Nay, then, the bird is flown.
at bird, n.1
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor IV iii: Thou hadst the world before thee; every lap was thy chapel of ease.
at chapel of ease (n.) under chapel, n.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor IV iii: My boy — an arrant crack-rope, father’s own son.
at crack-rope (n.) under crack, v.2
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor V iii: I’ll tell ye my design — cross-bite it if you can.
at crossbite, v.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor III iii: A beggarly Don.
at don, n.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor II i: Country! — A thing of chance [...] Your mother might have dropped ye anywhere!.
at drop, v.5
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor II i: Hough!—jangle with you!
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor II i: Our spouse and I have been at jingle-jangle.
at jingle-jangle, n.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor II iv: A downright country Joan!
at joan, n.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor IV ii: Thou shalt supply my place – all petticoats are sisters in the dark.
at petticoat, n.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor I i: min.: Not a skip-kennel but gives you three tricks for one. cris.: And for their masters.
at skip-kennel (n.) under skip, v.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor IV iii: As if women knew not what a smock-face meant! They take him for one of themselves, only that nature mistook him in the coinage.
at smockface, n.
[UK] J. Wilson Belphegor IV iii: A hate a trimming devil.
at trim, v.
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