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Bon Ton Magazine, Or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly choose

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[UK] Bon Ton Mag. Mar. 39/2: The Abigail [...] informed the father of the plan.
at abigail, n.1
[UK] Bon Ton Mag. Mar. 7/2: Ah, you Irish bite, I have got six and threepence by you now!
at bite, n.1
[UK] Bon Ton Mag. Mar. 35/1: ‘Pugh,’ says Old Surly, ‘I shall now expect / To see Jack Pudding treated with respect.’.
at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] Bon Ton Mag. Mar. 6/2: That is my business, honey; do you eat the bird, and by J---s I’ll find the Bill!
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] Bon Ton Mag. Mar. 15/2: The pleading perplexity which a pretty woman always throws her husband into by her amorous ogles.
at ogle, n.
[UK] Bon Ton Mag. Mar. 39/1: Receiving a blow in the face, which closed her peepers, she was obliged to give in to her opponent.
at peeper, n.
[UK] Bon Ton Mag. Mar. 15/2: Condemned to the eternal neglect of the male sex unless their pin-money, or their purses, can procure them a petticoat pensioner, or a riding master.
at petticoat pensioner (n.) under petticoat, n.
[UK] Microscope (Albany, NY) 3 Apr. 15/3: I’ve heard as how he’d like to have drowned a man once, ’fore he could make him poney up.
at pony (up), v.
[UK] Microscope (Albany, NY) 22 May n.p.: The Dutchmen in Albany are not so weak and illiterate as to throw away their shiners for the trash of a Cockney.
at shiner, n.1
[UK] Microscope (Albany, NY) 3 Apr. n.p.: General Key is a tarnation sly old fox.
at tarnation, adv.
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