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Looking-Glass for London and England choose

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[UK] Greene & Lodge Looking-Glass for London and England in Dyce Works (1861) 131: What, succour me! false callet, hence, avaunt!
at callet, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Looking-Glass for London and England in Dyce (1861) 126: Why, then, am I like to go home, not only with no cow, but no gown: this gear goes hard.
at gear, n.
[UK] Greene Looking-Glass for London and England in Dyce (1861) 127: [The] ale is strong ale, ’tis huffcap.
at huffcap, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Looking-Glass for London and England in Dyce (1861) 127: Thou’rt a shitten quean to call me a drunk.
at shitten, adj.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Looking-Glass for London and England in Dyce (1861) 122: She is a woman that hath her twiddling-strings broke [...] she breaks wind behind.
at twattling-strings, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Looking-Glass for London and England in Dyce (1861) 123: Believe me, though she say that she is fairest, I think my penny silver, by her leave.
at think one’s penny silver (v.) under think, v.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Looking-Glass for London and England in Dyce (1861) 141: How now sirrah, what cheer? we have no words of you.
at wotcher!, excl.
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