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The Sarah-Ad, or, A Flight for Fame choose

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[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 20: Now the most plaguy Cropsick was, / And had cascaded I suppose; / For at her Bed’s-Head slily stood / A half-drank Pitcher of Home-brew’d.
at cascade, v.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 6: Cods my Life! if I talk thus, / People will think the Dice I use.
at cod, n.1
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 20: Now the most plaguy Cropsick was, / And had cascaded I suppose; / For at her Bed’s-Head slily stood / A half-drank Pitcher of Home-brew’d.
at cropsick, adj.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 14: My poor dear Hubby was dismist.
at hubby, n.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 19: My Mistress wou’d herself get mellow, / So hated a sly sober Fellow.
at mellow, adj.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 14: H--de and Mary swore od’s Blood! / They’d make her do’t; ay they would.
at ods blood! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 7: The next was – when, without a Warning, / My Mistress turn’d me off one Morning.
at turn off, v.1
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 25: So we [...] in the Twinkling of a Feather, / All Three forc’d to pack off together.
at pack off (v.) under pack, v.1
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 28: To cheat and rob her of her Pelf.
at pelf, n.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 25: Nay, Gad! ’twas well he didn’t swing.
at swing, v.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 9: A tight young clever Girl was Nancy.
at tight, adj.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 24: But now see how the saucy Toad / Requited me for all this Good.
at toad, n.
[UK] N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 24: Thus clean’d, I got the foul Trugmullion / Promoted to be Under-scullion.
at trug, n.
[UK] Fredericks & Watkins Fame 72: Kenny plops down next to me, and I scootch over a bit to give him room.
at scootch, v.
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