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[UK] N. Amhurst Terræ-Filius (2004) No. XLIII 320: For if any saucy blue apron dares to affront any venerable person [...] all scholars are immediately forbid to have any dealings or commerce with him.
at blue-apron (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] N. Amhurst Terræ-Filius (2004) No. XXXIII 179: They have spiritual bravoes on their side, and old lecherous bully-backs to revenge their cause on every audacious contemner of Venus and her altars.
at bully back, n.
[UK] N. Amhurst Terræ-Filius (2004) No. XXXV 270: Surprized, no doubt, to find a place, which he had heard so much renown’d for learning, filled with such grey-headed novices and reverend hottentots.
at Hottentot, n.
[UK] N. Amhurst Terræ-Filius (2004) No. I 81: Methinks it could not do any great hurt to the universities, if the old fellows were to be jobed at least once in four or five years for their irregularities.
at job, v.2
[UK] N. Amhurst Terræ-Filius (1726) No. XI 132: The Sculls, lest they should be behind hand in gratitude, in as great haste, clapp’d a Degree upon his back.
at skull, n.1
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