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The Spitalfields Weaver choose

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[UK] N.T.H. Bayly Spitalfields Weaver I i: Ho! ho! you’re there are you — the chap I knocked over half an hour ago.
at chap, n.
[UK] N.T.H. Bayly Spitalfields Weaver I ii: Don’t accuse your wife until you know she’s a baggage.
at baggage, n.
[UK] N.T.H. Bayly Spitalfields Weaver I ii: Upon my life, Brown, you look blue! what is it?
at blue, adj.1
[UK] N.T.H. Bayly Spitalfields Weaver I ii: Is that all the fashion? them shoes, like Brummagen japanned candlesticks.
at Brummagem, adj.
[UK] N.T.H. Bayly Spitalfields Weaver I ii: You must have engaged this man for the night to amuse us [...] where does he hang out?
at hang out, v.1
[UK] N.T.H. Bayly Spitalfields Weaver I i: Don’t offer me money, I warn you of that; no, no, when we’re out on a lark, if you wish to treat me, well and good, but no money given.
at on a lark under lark, n.2
[UK] N.T.H. Bayly Spitalfields Weaver I ii: The waistcoat’s a natty concern enough.
at natty, adj.
[UK] N.T.H. Bayly Spitalfields Weaver I ii: You — you challenge me like a ruffian.
at ruffian, n.1
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