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[UK] E. Collins letter 29 June Misc. (1762) 35: Our Bulks and Pissing Pots have no longer immodest Inscriptions on them.
at pisspot, n.
[UK] E. Collins ‘Tale’ Misc. 13: Why, Farmer, why dost look so blue?
at blue, adj.1
[UK] E. Collins ‘On Miss W**DC**K’s’ Misc. 112: Why Peg, dost imagine there ever could be, A likeness between Edward’s Darling and thee? No, no, my dear Punk, you’re a different thing [...] Ned’s Cockboat was she, but you are the Town Lighter.
at boat, n.1
[UK] E. Collins ‘Gentle Robbin & Rude Moll’ Misc. 108: That Moll, of loudest Scolds, the lawful Queen / Bare as a Bird’s, thy very Bum was seen, / Exposed to ev’ry Coxcomb round the Court, The Object of their Wonder, and their Sport.
at bum, n.1
[UK] E. Collins ‘Tale’ Misc. 11: Tom Clod, a Yeoman of the West.
at clod, n.1
[UK] E. Collins ‘Modern Metamorphosis’ Misc. 30: ’Twas thus two Blades of the Excise, Had on a Porter fix’d their Eyes, Unluckily who cross’d their Way, Beneath a Load of fragrant Tea; The Scent affects the Lurchers Nose Still they pursue where’er he goes [...] The Sack is search’d, says John, what’s this? How strange a Metamorphosis! [...] Abash’d the Lurchers sneak’d away.
at lurcher (of the law), n.
[UK] E. Collins ‘Epit. on John Hippisley, Comedian’ Misc. 122: Wit hung her Blob, ev’n Humour seem’d to mourn, And sullenly sat mogging o’er his Urn.
at mug, v.1
[UK] E. Collins ‘Poem’ Misc. 103: A sad Dog this! The Farmer said, Slipping an Halter o’er his Head, Then swung him on a neighbouring Tree.
at swing, v.
[UK] E. Collins ‘The Parson’ Misc. 36: For Beef, I’ve a Round-end of Warwick’s dun Cow, And for Ham, what a Swinger of David’s fat Sow.
at swinger, n.1
[UK] E. Collins ‘Ninth Ode of Horace’ Misc. 115: In some dark Corner Dick, she’ll lurk. A Corner fitting for the Wurk [...] She’s all thy own, snatch any Thing – And tho’ she squeeks, you’ll have her Ring.
at work, n.
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