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Facetiae choose

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[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘On Usuring Gripe’ Epigrams in Facetiae II (1817) 99: Gripe feels no lameness of his knotty gout, His money travell for him in and out.
at gripe, n.1
[UK] ‘Margate’ Facetiae 12: Old Philpot, I declare, A boosey little man I guess.
at boozy, adj.
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