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[UK] ‘A Country Dialogue’ in Covent Garden Drollery 107: We will play at uptailes all; We’l dance a dance, I faith shall please thee: Up and down, and never miss.
at up-tails-all, n.
[UK] ‘Song’ in Covent Garden Drollery 39: Agreed we lay’d down and tumbled Till both were weary of play, Though I spent a full share, Yet by Cupid I swear, I came off with a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
at come off (v.) under come, v.1
[UK] ‘A Country Dialogue’ Covent Garden Drollery 105: Oh love me then, thou pretty Doxcy.
at doxy, n.
[UK] ‘Song’ Covent Garden Drollery 29: Prey mark the tricks of this prick ear’d slave [...] Hee’d kill his King, to preserve his cause.
at prick-eared, adj.
[UK] ‘A Country Dialogue’ in Covent Garden Drollery 104: Such geer I think thou ne’re did see, Things that will please thee without measure.
at gear, n.
[UK] ‘Song’ Covent Garden Drollery 63: Hang the trade of versifying, Tis lying.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] ‘A Country Dialogue’ Covent Garden Drollery 105: And we’l be married my dear hony, Tomorrow morn.
at honey, n.1
[UK] ‘Prologue to a reviv’d Play’ Covent Garden Drollery 83: Like Bridegrooms, hott to go to Bed ere noone!
at hot, adj.
[UK] ‘To the Knight of the burning Pestle’ Covent Garden Drollery 78: Ralph, who humbly does each Lady greet, And layes his Burning Pestle at her feet.
at ...the pestle under knight of the..., n.
[UK] ‘To my friend, Master Tho. St. Serf’ in Covent Garden Drollery 84: You get the Bayes, while we get only Mocks, As you got Prizes, while we got but Knocks].
at knock, n.1
[UK] ‘Song’ Covent Garden Drollery 39: Agreed we lay’d down and tumbled Till both were weary of play, Though I spent a full share, Yet by Cupid I swear, I came off with a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
at play, n.
[UK] ‘Greenwich Strollers’ in Covent Garden Drollery 23: The Prizes they took, were a Londoners groat, A Gentlemans size [sic], but his skipkennels pot.
at sice, n.
[UK] ‘Greenwich Strollers’ Covent Garden Drollery 23: The Prizes they took, were a Londoners groat, A Gentlemans size [sic], but his skipkennels pot.
at skip-kennel (n.) under skip, v.
[UK] ‘Song’ Covent Garden Drollery 39: Agreed we lay’d down and tumbled Till both were weary of play, Though I spent a full share, Yet by Cupid I swear, I came off with a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
at spend, v.
[UK] ‘Song’ Covent Garden Drollery 39: Agreed we lay’d down and tumbled Till both were weary of play, Though I spent a full share, Yet by Cupid I swear, I came off with a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
at tumble, v.1
[UK] ‘A Country Dialogue’ Covent Garden Drollery 106: Zounds, and she be so mad of Kissing.
at zounds!, excl.
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