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The Comical History of Don Quixote choose

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[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 V i: Bird, right; thou art the bird of Night: Come, I’ll go with thee; by thy broad Face and toothless Gums I know thee.
at bird, n.1
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 IV iii: Come along with me, Chuck.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 epilogue n.p.: Gadslids your Top high Flyers of the Town, Now scarce wear any thing that is their own; One has false Teeth, another has false Hair.
at high-flyer, n.
[UK] D’Urfey The Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 II ii: The Girls of Venus Game, / That venture Health and Fame, / In practising Feats, / With Colds and Heats, / Make Lovers go Blind and Lame.
at Venus’s game, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 IV i: Lift up your Golls.
at goll, n.1
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 IV iii: Leave off that course, that Clownish word ifackins, and if you would swear [...] you must say by my Soul.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] in D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 IV iii: How now, Jack Sawce! must come away!
at jack sauce (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 IV i: Ah Gimminy, I could eat the Letter up methinks.
at jiminy!, excl.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt II IV i: Ye ignorant Jade [...] Ye senseless Mawkin.
at mawkin, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 2 V i: This sneaking Louse-snapper, Snip here, ran away with the Flask.
at prick-(the-)louse (n.) under prick, v.2
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt II IV iii: ’Tis well spouse; mine, ’tis well: but not too much of fondness now, good Crooked Rib.
at rib, n.1
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 III i: Will, and Tom Hall, Dick, and Hugh.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt III Preface: I know no other way in Nature to do the Characters right, but to make a Romp speak like a Romp, and a Clownish Boor blunder out things proper for such a Fellow.
at bore, n.1
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 Epilogue: I dare now a Wage of Crowns You take me for the veriest Romp in Town – But e’re I part from ye, I’ll let you see, There’s other Molly Buxomes besides me [...] From thence back here again to Bulking Betty.
at bulk, v.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 V i: No, hear me, Don Bullet-head; thou Jack-a-lent [...] thou Baboon on Cock-Horse.
at bullet-head, n.
[UK] in D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt III Epilogue: Yes – There’s a Swinger – by you Bully-Rocks.
at bully-rock (n.) under bully, n.1
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt III Prologue: Praise a pert Coxcomb’s awkward Shape and Air.
at coxcomb, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 III i: Why, here has been mad doings in the Meadows yonder.
at doings, n.1
[UK] in D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 I i: Gadslidikins, there are a pair of Portcullises before it.
at gadslid! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] in D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 I i: Gadsdiggers [...] I’ll go presently, and get ready my Wedding Tackle [...] and then at night, Vather-in law – at night – oh Lord, ha, ha, ha.
at gad, n.1
[UK] in D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 III i: The Old Wife she sent to the Miller her Daughter / To grind her Grist quickly [...] The Miller so workt it, that in eight months after, / Her Belly was fill’d as full as her Sack.
at grind, v.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 V i: Thou Jordan of foul Juice, thou hast undone me.
at jordan, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 III i: Hoy, were e’er two Sisters so Lerricom Poop’d.
at lerricompoop, v.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 III i: Doll, Sue, Bess, and Moll, with Hodge.
at moll, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt III II i: Icod, I’ll niggle him so he was ne’er so niggled.
at niggle, v.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt III V i: What! take away your Wife’s Money the first Week of her Marriage? Ah, Nincompoop.
at nincompoop, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 IV ii: Dear Pinkaninny, / If half a Guiny / To Love will win ye, / I lay it here down: [...] ’Twill serve to shift ye.
at piccaninny, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 I i: I think she’s a Maid [...] I don’t love a Pippin that other Folks have handled.
at pippin, n.
[UK] in D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 I i: I go to’t as other folks do, I think, for a ready Pudding: Besides, Mary has [...] such a jigging crumptious whim with her Backside. [...] She has a pure stroke with her, fackins – Then, to say the truth, Mary’s very well forehanded too.
at pudding, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 Epilogue: I dare now a Wage of Crowns You take me for the veriest Romp in Town – But e’re I part from ye, I’ll let you see, There’s other Molly Buxomes besides me [...] From thence back here again to Bulking Betty. [Ibid.] I i: She’s the plaguiest Ramp, the veriest Hoyden.
at ramp, n.1
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