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Fables of Aesop (1926) 1: Aesop [was] Flat-nos’d, Hunch-Back’d, Blabber-Lipp’d; [...] Big-Belly’d, Baker-Legg’d.at baker-kneed, adj.
Fables of Aesop (1926) 1: Aesop [was] Flat-nos’d, Hunch-Back’d, Blabber-Lipp’d; [...] Big-Belly’d, Baker-Legg’d. Fables of Aesop LXXVII 76: ’Tis No New Thing for an Innocent Simplicity to be made the Sport of Bantering Drolls, and Buffons.at banter, v.
Fables of Aesop CXLIII 145: Well (says a Blockheaded Boy) These are Villanous Creatures sure, to Sing when their Houses are a-fire.at blockheaded, adj.
Fables of Aesop LXVIII 68: What if [...] That Gay Furniture Borrow’d; T’other Fine Woman Clapt.at borrow, v.
Fables of Aesop XI 10: In comes a Crew of Roaring Bullies, with their Wenches, their Dogs and their Bottles.at bully, n.1
Fables of Aesop LXVIII 68: What if [...] Tother Fine Woman Clapt.at clapped, adj.
Fables of Aesop LXXIII 73: What would a body think now of a Prime Minister that should Conjobble Matters of State with Tumblers and Buffoons? at conjobble, v.
Fables of Aesop XLII 44: He saw it would not Fadge.at fadge, v.
Fables of Aesop CLVI 141: A Woman that lay under the Mortification of a Fudling Husband, took him once when he was Dead Drunk; and had his Body lay’d in a Charnel-House.at fuddled, adj.
Fables of Aesop CLVI 141: A Woman that lay under the Mortification of a Fudling Husband,[...] says she, the Humour I perceive has taken Possession of him; He has gotten a Habit.at habit, n.
Fables of Aesop CXXXIV 124: Apples and Horse-Turds.at horseshit, n.
Fables of Aesop CLVI 141: Let the Reproche be never so True, it can hardly be Honest, Where the Office is done in Hugger-Mugger.at in hugger-mugger (adv.) under hugger-mugger, n.1
Fables of Aesop CI 96: He endeavours to Prove [...] that Men, in such a Case, ought to go to Old Nick for Company.at Old Nick, n.
Fables of Aesop (1926) 8: I have a Project in my Noddle that shall bring my Mistress to you back again.at noddle, n.
Fables of Aesop III 3: Down comes a Kite Powdering upon them in the Interim, and Gobbles up both together.at powder, v.1
Fables of Aesop LII 52: She [a lark] went out Progging for Provisions.at prog, v.
Fables of Aesop XXXIV 33: The whole Course of your Scandalous Life is only Cheating and Sharping.at sharping, n.
Fables of Aesop CXVI 109: What’s a Character of Honour upon the shoulders of a Man that has neither a Soul [...] or a True Sense of the Dignity, but a Mark set up for every Common Fool to shoot his Bolt at!at shoot one’s bolt (v.) under shoot, v.
Fables of Aesop (1926) 6: The Cunning Gypsy smoak’d the Matter presently.at smoke, v.1
Fables of Aesop (1692) XXXIV 33: The Fly is an Intruder, and a Common Smell-Feast, that Spunges upon Other Peoples Trenches. [Ibid.] Fables of Abstemius CCCXXXVII 302: There was a Generous and Rich man that kept a Splendid and an Open Table, [...] All People came to him Promiscuously, and a Curiosity took him in the Head to try, which of ’em were Friends, and which only Trencher-Flies and Spungers.at sponge, v.
Fables 🌐 Gene-Michael Higney was born in Brooklyn but is now an ex-New Yorker, transplanted (sort of like a potted fern) from the Big Apple to the Big Orange, Los Angeles.at Big Orange, n.
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