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The Country Wife choose

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[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife III i: Faith, dear, not that I care one pin for their talk there.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife I i: You will be as odious to the handsome young women [...] And to the city dames as aniseed Robin.
at aniseed Robin, n.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife III ii: Yet he must be buzzing amongst ’em still, like other beetle-headed, liquorish drones.
at beetle-head (n.) under beetle, n.1
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife I i: I have known ’em, when they are broke and can lose no more, keep a-fumbling with the box in their hands to fool with only.
at broke, adj.1
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV iv: O Lord, you are such a passionate man, bud!
at bud, n.1
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife V iv: lady fidget: Well, Harry Common, I hope you can be true to three.
at Harry Common, n.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV iv: These dow-baked, senseless, indocile animals, women, too hard for us, their politic lords and rulers.
at dough-baked (adj.) under dough, n.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife Epilogue: Pox on her, Ned, she can’t be found!
at Ned, n.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife V ii: pinchwife: What, you take her for a wench, and me for a pimp? horner: Pshaw! Wench and pimp, paw words.
at paw, adj.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV ii: For he’s a proper, goodly strong man.
at proper, adj.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV iii: They rail at a poor little kept player, and keep themselves some young, modest, pulpit comedian to be privy to their sins in their closets, not to tell ’em of them in their chapels.
at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife I i: A quack is as fit for a pimp as a midwife for a bawd; they are still but in their way both helpers of nature.
at quack, n.1
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife II i: S’death, I’ll not suffer it.
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV iii: Your stingy country coxcomb keeps his wife from his friends as he does his little firkin of ale for his own drinking, and a gentleman can’t get a smack on’t.
at smack, n.1
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife I i: That grave circumspection in marrying a country wife is like refusing a deceitful pampared Smithfield jade.
at Smithfield jade (n.) under Smithfield, n.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife III ii: Who is that, that is to be bubbled? Faith let me snack, I han’t met with a bubble since Christmas.
at snack, v.1
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV iii: I am now no more interruption to ’em, when they sing or talk bawdy, than a little squab French page, who speaks no English.
at squabby, adj.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife III ii: Now your Sting is gone, you look’d in the Box amongst all those Women, like a drone in the hive.
at sting, n.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife III ii: Come, let us go too [to alithea] Madam, your servant. [to lucy] Good night, strapper.
at strapper, n.
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV iii: Where is this harlotry, this impudent baggage, this rambling tomrigg?
at tom rig (n.) under tom, n.5
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV iii: Where is this harlotry, this impudent baggage, this rambling tomrigg?
at tom rig (n.) under tom, n.12
[UK] Wycherley Country-Wife IV iv: I will not wag without you.
at wag, v.
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