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[UK] J. Dunton Ladies’ Dict. n.p.: Cainsham-smoke, a man’s weeping when beat by his wife.
at cainsham smoke, n.
[UK] J. Dunton Ladies’ Dict. n.p.: Famble-cheats, rings or gloves.
at fambling-cheat, n.
[UK] J. Dunton Ladies’ Dict. n.p.: Cully, fop, or one that may easily be wrought upon.
at cully, n.1
[UK] in J. Dunton Ladies’ Dict.
at doudon, n.
[UK] J. Dunton Ladies’ Dict. n.p.: A crevecoeur, by some called a heartbreaker, is the curled lock at the nape of the neck, and generally there are two of them [F&H].
at heartbreaker, n.
[UK] J. Dunton Ladies’ Dict. n.p.: To stand ... parching his pimginits, carbuncles, and buboes.
at pimgenet, n.
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