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[UK] W. Cowper Letters and Prose (1979) I 374: It is to be hoped that the present Century has nothing to do with the Mouldy Opinions of the last.
at mouldy, adj.
[UK] W. Cowper Letters and Prose (1981) II 553: I have not that which commonly is a symptom of such a case belonging to me. I mean extraordinary elevation in the absence of Mr. Blue Devil .
at blue devils, n.
[UK] W. Cowper Letters and Prose (1981) II 620: Through the inattention of Booby the Waggoner they got a squeeze that broke six of them.
at booby, n.1
[UK] W. Cowper Letters and Prose (1981) II 516: There is a little room close to your own for Mrs. Eaton, and there is a room for Cookee and Samuel.
at cookee, n.
[UK] W. Cowper Letters and Prose (1981) II 620: I suspect therefore that it stuck at Newport, the Old Trott of that Post House being past her business, and the occasion consequently of many delays.
at old trot (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] W. Cowper Letters and Prose (1981) II 441: The remedy is certainly a most detestable affair, but when taken early in the morning, without slip-slops, is attended with less labour.
at slip-slop, n.
[UK] W. Cowper Letters and Prose (1981) II 514: The honest tar’s folly was much laughed at, when it was known that he, who had so ofter swung in a hammock, had given twenty pounds for a bed.
at tar, n.1
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