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[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 64: ‘Common charity, a f--t!’ says she.
at fart...!, a, excl.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) III 278: A fig for prospects!
at fig, a, n.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 80: They had a pot of cyder-and at the fire.
at cider-and, n.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) II 136: As sure as twopence he hath left him behind at the inn.
at sure as twopence under sure as..., phr.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 51: Don’t shock my ears with your beastly language.
at beastly, adj.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) IV 319: ‘Begad, madam’ answered he, ‘’tis the very same I met.’.
at begad!, excl.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 30: The best gamesters, before they laid their money, always inquired which horse little Joey was to ride; and the bets were rather proportioned by the rider than by the horse himself; especially after he had scornfully refused a considerable bribe to play booty on such an occasion.
at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) IV 290: We have one sure card, which is to carry him before Justice Frolick.
at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) II 145: Adams, who was no chicken, and could bear a drubbing as well as any boxing champion in the universe, lay still.
at no chicken under chicken, n.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) II 127: I am not afraid of dying with a blow or two neither: I am not such a chicken as that.
at chicken, n.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 51: ‘Marry-come-up’ cries Slipslop.
at marry come up!, excl.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) III 208: By Gad, I was once fond of her.
at gad, n.1
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 82: ‘You be hanged,’ says the other.
at hang, v.1
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) II 173: ‘Ifacks, a good story,’ cries Mrs Trulliber.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) II 161: ‘Pale! Mr. Adams,’ says she; ‘O Jesus!’ and fell backwards.
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) II 154: The justice [...] ordered his clerk to make the mittimus.
at mittimus, n.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 51: You must [...] get a set of mophrodites to wait upon you.
at morphodite, n.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 62: A little silver bottle [...] held some of the best Nantes he had ever tasted.
at nantz, n.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 82: I’ll pepper you better than ever you was peppered by Jenny Bouncer.
at pepper, v.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) III 274: A long piss-burnt beard served to retain the liquor of the stone-pot.
at piss-burned (adj.) under piss, n.
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 59: After they had drank a loving pot [...] they set out together.
at pot, n.1
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) III 259: Rabbit the fellow!
at rabbit, v.1
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 61: Though there were two greatcoats about the coach [...] The two gentlemen complained they were cold, and could not spare a rag.
at rag, n.1
[UK] Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 64: Am I to buy shirts to lend to a set of shabby rascals?
at scabby, adj.1
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