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[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 241: The Art of Borrowing and Bubbling.
at borrow, v.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 232: Suppose any man should [...] call you Buffle-Head, what would you do?
at bufflehead, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 116: They are no Capons, I’ll assure you [...] but may very probably be called Fathers.
at capon, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 186: He and I have crackt many a Bottle together.
at crack a bottle (v.) under crack, v.2
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 112: I was so Dog-weary.
at dog, adv.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 124: They have taken their Dose of Fuddle.
at fuddle, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 274: You may be sure they [waggoners] are at their Brandy; and the longer they Fuddle, the more danger of Over-turning.
at fuddle, v.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 139: A Ruffling Hector that lives upon the High way.
at hector, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 139: A Ruffling Hector that lives upon the High way.
at ruffler, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 62: Hot Baths [...] are found to be ill for the Scabbado.
at scabbado, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 116: Much safer truely in my Judgment, than with these Brawny swill-belly’d Monks.
at swill-tub (n.) under swill, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 100: I should hammer it into the heads of those thick-skull’d Courtiers.
at thick-skulled (adj.) under thick, adj.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 126: These Hoarson Jack-puddings, how they Coakes, and Wheadle the little people!
at wheadle, v.
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