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Whipping-Tom, or, A Rod for a Proud Lady choose

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[UK] Whipping-Tom Rod For a Proud Lady Pt 2 11: Drinkers, who drinking a great deal of Sugar in their warm Water, [...] makes ’em so good humour’d, as not to deny their Sparks a Game at Gamar Cook, Gratis.
at play hey gammer cook (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Rod for a Proud Lady II 6: Almighty Pox [begetter of] Buboes, most painful Shankres, aching Heads, A falling Palate, Soreness, rotten Shins, And useless Bridge.
at bube, n.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Expensive Use of Drinking Tea I 19: Every Bully that goes, thro’ his Familiarity with the Pox, [...] must have a Dish to talk over his foul and obscene Discourse.
at bully, n.1
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Immodest Wearing of Hoop-Petticoats I 32: I admire our Ladies catch not the Cold [...] but Pride is insensible of Frigidity, so they never fear getting a Chin-Cough.
at chincough, n.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Foppish Mode of Taking Snuff I 10: The Butcher’s Froe in blue Apron, is always clogging her Nose with as much Filth, as her Husband does Infection into Veal.
at froe, n.1
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Immodest Wearing of Hoop-Petticoats I 39: She that is growing up fit for Man’s Meat, may, by some Spark measuring the Dimensions of her Hoop, be rotten before she’s ripe.
at meat, n.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Immodest Wearing of Hoop-Petticoats I 32: Pride, which is rivetted as close to them as the Itch to the Blue-coat Boys of Christ’s Hospital, or mobbing to the Blue-wastcoat Prentices of Bridewell.
at mob, v.1
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Expensive Use of Drinking Tea I 17: I verily thought they were going to raise Old Nick.
at Old Nick, n.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Foppish Mode of Taking Snuff I 10: A Fish-Woman at Billings-Gate, cannot scold now without a Snuff-Box in her swell’d Paws.
at paw, n.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Rod for a Proud Lady II 5: Almighty Pox! [...] His Codpiece Passion – did inspire, To set both Body and the Soul on Fire.
at pox!, excl.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Immodest Wearing of Hoop-Petticoats I 35: ’Tis not Money [...] Swearing, Poysoning, Ramping.
at ramp, v.1
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Foppish Mode of Taking Snuff I 10: A Laundry Maid can’t iron her Linnen [...] a Nurse wash her Sh--t-- Clouts, nor a Chamber Maid empty her Close-Stool, without a Pinch of Snuff.
at shitten, adj.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Foppish Mode of Taking Snuff I 8: Even Carmen [...] Coachmen, Skipkennels, and others of the Sham-Gentry.
at skip-kennel (n.) under skip, v.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Rod for a Proud Lady II 6: Buboes, most painful Shankres, aching Heads, A falling Palate, Soreness, rotten Shins, And useless Bridge; all Tokens which (in Spite Of Flux or Salivation) do foreshew A loathsome End.
at token, n.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Foppish Mode of Taking Snuff I 9: A Man not acquainted with the Mode, would swear they were all Gold-finders or to speak more intelligibly, [...] Tom T---d Men.
at tom turdman (n.) under tom, n.1
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Expensive Use of Drinking Tea I 16: There is scarce a Trull in any Market about London, or Mechanicks Drab but what must have her Load of hot Water and Sugar, five or six Times a Day.
at trull, n.
[UK] ‘Whipping-Tom’ Expensive Use of Drinking Tea I 17: I found the Use of ’em was only to sweeten Water bewitch’d with a Lump of Loaf-Sugar.
at water bewitched (n.) under water, n.1
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