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Pierce Pennilesse 29: They are an arrogant Asse-headed people.at assheaded, adj.
Pierce Pennilesse 29: They are an arrogant Asse-headed people. Pierce Pennilesse 48: Thou great baboune, thou Pigmie Braggart.at baboon, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 33: Cucullus non facit Monachum, tis not their newe bonnets will keepe them from the old boan-ach.at bone-ache (n.) under bone, n.1
Pierce Pennilesse 4: How, when all supply of victualls fayled them, they went a boot-haling one night to Sinior Greedinesse bed-chamber .at boothale, v.
Pierce Penilesse 57: He is reputed a Pesaunt and a Boore that will not take his licour profoundly.at bore, n.1
Pierce Pennilesse 33: Pish, pish; what talke you of old age or bald pates? men & women that haue gone vnder the South pole, must lay off their furde night-caps in spight of their teeth, and become yeomen of the Vineger bottle.at yeoman of the vinegar bottle, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 67: The vintners, ale-wives, and victuallers, who surmise, if there were no Playes, they should haue all the companie that resort to them, lye bowzing and beere-bathing in their houses euery after-noon.at bouse, v.
Pierce Pennilesse 17: His shoes were the strangest, which, being nothing else but a couple of crab shells, were tooth’d at the toes with two sharp sixpennie nailes.at crab-shells (n.) under crab, n.1
Pierce Pennilesse 60: The seventh is Goate drunke [...] he hath no minde but on lecherie: the eighth is Fox drunke – when he is craftie drunke.at fox-drunk (adj.) under fox, n.1
Pierce Pennilesse 33: Pish, pish; what talke you of old age or bald pates? men & women that haue gone vnder the South pole, must lay off their furde night-caps in spight of their teeth, and become yeomen of the Vineger bottle.at go under the South Pole (v.) under go under, v.
Pierce Pennilesse 39: Men will need carouse, conspire, and quarrell, that they may make Ruffians hall of Hell.at Ruffian’s Hall, n.
Pierce Penilesse 31: A thousand iymiams and toyes haue they in theyr chambers.at jim-jam, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 37: Jesu! what secret grudge and rancour raignes amongst them.at Jesus!, excl.
Pierce Pennilesse 27: Let a man sooth him in this vayne of kilcow vanitie.at kill-calf (adj.) under kill, v.
Pierce Pennilesse in Works II (1883–4) 7: [Author to the Printer] In one place of my Booke, Pierce Penilesse faith but to the Knight of the Post, I pray how might I call you, and they say, I meant one Howe, a Knaue of the trade, that I neuer heard of before.at knight of the..., n.
Pierce Pennilesse in Works II (1883–4) 33: Poor Scullians, that, from turning the spit in the chimney corner, are on the sodaine hoisted vp from the Kitchin into the waiting chamber, or made Barons of the beanes, and Marquesses of the mary-boanes.at marquis of marrowbones (n.) under marrowbones, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 25: So the Vintners in like case: others by slime, as frogs, which may be alluded to Mother Bunches slimie ale.at Mother Bunch (n.) under mother, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 20: You shall see a dapper Jacke [...] talke English through the teeth, like Jacques Scabd-hams, or Monsieur Mingo de Mousetrap.at Mr, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 39: [Note] Newgate, a common name for al prisons, as homo is a common name for a man or woman.at Newgate, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 20: A malecontent Cutpursse [...] cannot his stabbing dagger, or his nittie loue-locke, keepe him out of the Legend of fanatasticall cockcombs.at nitty, adj.
Pierce Pennilesse 18: A cod-peece, well dunged and manured with greace (which my pinch-fart penie-father had retaind from his Bachelorship, vntill the eating of these presents).at pinch-fart (n.) under pinch, v.
Pierce Pennilesse 48: Thou, that in thy Dialogues soldst Hunnyie for a halpenie, and the choysest Writers extant for cues a peece.at sell honey for a halfpenny (v.) under sell, v.
Pierce Pennilesse 69: Make a priuie search in Southwarke, and tell mee how many Shee-Inmates you finde: nay, goe where you will in the Suburbes, and bring me two Virgins that haue vowd Chastity, and Ile builde a Nunnery.at she-inmate (n.) under she, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 13: A paire of trunke slops, sagging down like a shoo-maker’s wallet.at slops, n.1
Pierce Penilesse 57: He is no body that cannot drinke super nagulum, carouse the Hunters’ Hoop, quaff upsey freze crosse with leapes, gloves, mumpes, frolickses.at supernaculum, n.
Pierce Pennilesse 59: His subjects should not offend in swilling, & bibbing.at swill, v.
Pierce Penilesse 57: He is no body that cannot drinke super nagulum, carouse the Hunters’ Hoop, quaff upsey freze crosse with leapes, gloves, mumpes, frolickses.at upsee, adj.
Pierce Pennilesse 89: He is so busie with my L. How-call-ye him, and my L. What-call-ye him, that he may no be spoken withall.at whatd’youcallhim, n.
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