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[UK] ‘Poem on the Taking of St. Mary’s’ Collection of Eng. Poetry II (1716) 7: Cotzooks, my Dear, why what’s the meaning?
at cotzooks!
[UK] ‘Poem on the Taking of St. Mary’s’ Collection of Eng. Poetry II (1716) 6: I will be Mars, you must be Venus [...] I’m cock’d and prim’d and must have at you.
at have, v.
[UK] ‘Canary-Birds Naturaliz’d’ Collection of Eng. Poetry II (1716) II 1: Ought not I to prefer my [...] old Friends, or even my old Shoes [...] before Strangers, Sharpers, and Intruders; Hoghen-Moghens, Hugonots, and Wooden Shoe-makers?
at hogan-mogan, n.
[UK] ‘Canary-Birds Naturaliz’d’ Collection of Eng. Poetry II (1716) 13: And now like Fools in Lurch he’ll leave ye.
at lurch, n.
[UK] ‘Canary-Birds Naturaliz’d’ Collection of Eng. Poetry (1716) II 10: Who in common Sense can think, / That Monsieur’s Jean, or Myn Heer’s Blink, / Will ever to us prove so civil, As hold the candle to the Devil?
at mynheer, n.
[UK] ‘Poem on the Taking of St. Mary’s’ Collection of Eng. Poetry II (1716) 1: One that himself knew how to Rule, As a Quack Doctor does his Fool.
at quack, adj.
[UK] ‘Poem on the Taking of St. Mary’s’ Collection of Eng. Poetry II (1716) 8: I know you Nuns are but a sort, / Of pious Wag-tails for the Sport / Of brawny Monks and Priests Design’d .
at wagtail, n.
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