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The Life of Anthony à Wood from 1632 to 1672 choose

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[UK] A. Wood Life of Anthony à Wood (1772) I 293: [of universities] The nurseries of wickedness, the nests of mutton tuggers, the dens of formall droanes.
at mutton-tugger (n.) under mutton, n.
[UK] A. Wood Life of Anthony à Wood I (1772) 166: It was often buz’d into his Head by his Flatterers.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] A. Wood Life of Anthony à Wood I (1772) 167: John Haselwood, a proud, starch’d, formal and sycophantizing Clister-pipe, who was the Apothecary to Clayton.
at clyster-pipe, n.
[UK] A. Wood Life of Anthony à Wood I (1772) 162: They knew him to have been the very Lol-poop of the University, the common subject of every Lampoon.
at lolpoop, n.
[UK] A. Wood Life of Anthony à Wood II (1772) 290: The black potman carried it for Perrot, a thorough paced Soaker.
at soaker, n.1
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