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[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (18) 43: A third Jack-a-Dandy cries, ‘Hang her, she must be threescore, or she couldn’t know so much of the world.’.
at jack-a-dandy, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (29) 71: Such articles [...] may be more binding on their sides that employ her than those of marriage would be on hers, had she any husband to play fast and loose with.
at play fast and loose with a woman’s apron-strings (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Bragge [Fake] Female Tatler (1992) 44 216: Mrs Crackenthorpe. You are a dirty, confounded, impudent B—ch of a Harridan.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (39) 92: Joan the blowze, nay ev’n the great red-haired wench in Cheapside, make horrid complaints against him.
at blowse, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (9) 18: ‘Fogh!’ says he.
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] A Society of Ladies Female Tatler (1992) (75) 146: She thought a sneaker of punch or a can of good flip, [...] preferable to your t’other end of the town Green tea.
at flip, n.1
[UK] A Society of Ladies Female Tatler (1992) LXXV 146: They all got foxed.
at foxed, adj.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (17) 42: Mr. Fribble, Mr Bisket and Mr Nincompoop.
at fribble, n.
[UK] Bragge [Fake] Female Tatler (1992) 44 127: Good Mr Doolittle, why so hot?
at hot, adj.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (4) 8: Several ladies whose constitutions are impaired by the spleen, the hyppo, the flatus and the hurry of the spirits.
at hypo, n.1
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (10) 19: He [...] gave ’em nick-names of Sue Stately, Jenny Jigg-it, Bess Bob-tail.
at jig, v.1
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (1) 2: She’s horrid silly however, and not a bit genteel; but what a load of jewels she had on!
at load of, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (3) 7: The girl, perceiving, made mouths at her, and hoyden’d out of the room.
at make mouths (at) (v.) under mouth, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (17) 42: Mr. Fribble, Mr Bisket and Mr Nincompoop.
at Mr, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (26) 64: A count! – The wives are not able to eat a bit more. ‘Dear Nincompoop, present our Deborah to the Count.’.
at nincompoop, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (27) 64: At last the butchers, ale-house-keepers, and poulterer’s wives, people that abominate scolding, upon the advice of several eminent tongue-pads, hir’d six porters to attack her.
at tongue pad, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (28) 66: She had a gentlewoman’s fortune, two thousand pounds, but lovers blush’d at people’s naming worldly pelf to ’em.
at pelf, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (15) 38: They die o’ the pip.
at pip, n.1
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (10) 19: He mimick’d and ridicul’d all the quality in the kingdom; this lady was a trapes, t’other a puss.
at puss, n.1
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (7) 15: A sophister may pass upon the generality for a man of learning, a prating quack for a great physician.
at quack, n.1
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (35) 84: You will find him [...] gnawing a hard crust, and sponging his liquor for want of ready rhino.
at ready rhino (n.) under ready, adj.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (17) 42: Lawyers are dispers’d with the rooks.
at rook, n.1
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (48) 112: He thinks himself too good to wait at the table, carrying Flambeaux is do like a skip-kennel.
at skip-kennel (n.) under skip, v.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (43) 98: They abhorred Smithfield bargains.
at Smithfield bargain (n.) under Smithfield, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (35) 84: You will find him [...] gnawing a hard crust, and sponging his liquor for want of ready rhino.
at sponge, v.
[UK] A Society of Ladies Female Tatler (1992) (75) 147: Two strammelling wenches in the neighbourhood, had given the coachmen six-pence to sea-saw in the chariot.
at stammel, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (29) 71: The virtuous Imoinda being now down in the straw with her fourth and last child without any father for it.
at in (the) straw under straw, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (10) 22: Some slovenly tars met him at Shadwell, press’d him, and would have carry’d him on board had he not scream’d out and two strong women rescu’d him.
at tar, n.1
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (31) 74: The vocal part of it [a concert] by an Ethiopian ballad singer [...] and Seignior Tatterdemaliano, an Italian rag-merchant.
at tatterdemallion, n.
[UK] ‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (10) 19: He mimick’d and ridicul’d all the quality in the kingdom; this lady was a trapes, t’other a puss.
at trapes, n.
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