1675 Wycherley Country-Wife III i: Faith, dear, not that I care one pin for their talk there.at not care a pin, v.
1675 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.
1675 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
1675 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
1675 Wycherley Country-Wife V iv: lady fidget: Well, Harry Common, I hope you can be true to three.at Harry Common, n.
1675 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.
1675 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.
1675 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.
1675 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
1675 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
1675 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.
1675 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
1675 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.
1675 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.
1675 Wycherley Country-Wife III ii: Come, let us go too [to alithea] Madam, your servant. [to lucy] Good night, strapper.at strapper, n.
1675 Wycherley Country-Wife IV iii: Where is this harlotry, this impudent baggage, this rambling tomrigg?at tom rig (n.) under tom, n.5
1675 Wycherley Country-Wife IV iii: Where is this harlotry, this impudent baggage, this rambling tomrigg?at tom rig (n.) under tom, n.12