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The Progress of a Rake choose

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[UK] Progress of a Rake 6: The jovial Sisters were unmarried, but being born under the Constellation of Venus, could not refrain from playing at Up Tails All.
at up-tails-all, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 40: Our Youth too often find ’em [i.e. whores] stale, / And sting without a Coat of mail.
at armour, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 50: Had I again my Health and Riches, / How would I maul th’ ungrateful B— .
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 40: Some young Nobles / (Tho’ they were Gamesters, Bites, and Bubbles).
at bite, n.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 30: The Rattle in the Throat, and Snuffle / In Nose, so needful for a Buffle.
at buffle, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 29: A Girl said, prithee, Sir, do you / In Time of term your Business do? / Why faith, said Richard, that’s my Pleasure.
at business, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 13: Till Nuncle found his Country Cousin, / Was after youthful Follies bussing.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 22: The Rascals had a House of Call / [...] / That when they ’spy’d a Man a fretting, / They were such ready Rogues at Setting, / They cry, Your Bus’ness, Sir, be brief.
at call house, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 19: The Cuckow never was at rest, / For fear some Bird should foul his Nest.
at cuckoo, n.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 16: He fetch’d a Whip, of anger full, / And acted like a flogging cull.
at flogging cully, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake [title page]: V. His vast Improvement in each Faculty, especially that of a Cushion-thumper.
at cushion-thumper (n.) under cushion, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 24: Since all our zealous Cushion-beaters, / Or most, are mighty Pudding-eaters.
at cushion-thumper (n.) under cushion, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 4: A Brace of Does, well fleshed and in Season.
at doe, n.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 11: In Roguery he soon refin’d, / The saddest Dog he’s not behind.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Progress of a Rake 12: The Girl, with whom our Dick was merry / [...] / Known by the name of Little Teazer, / Eere Dumpling-headed Dick did squeeze her.
at dumpling head (n.) under dumpling, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 43: By this time Dick begins to know / His fate, by Fulham’s High and Low / And that the Cogging of a Dy / Has made his Heaps of Guineas fly.
at fulhams, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 24: Dick’s Friends now heard, and judg’d aright, / If thus he liv’d, Estate good-night.
at goodnight, phr.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 50: She’d have no nasty, pocky Fellows, / Dribbling her Sheets with Greens and Yellows.
at greens, n.2
[UK] Progress of a Rake 20: That since he’d Whore, and Swear, and Hector, / He must forthwith depart the College.
at hector, v.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 43: By this time Dick begins to know / His fate, by Fulham’s High and Low / And that the Cogging of a Dy / Has made his Heaps of Guineas fly.
at high men (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 49: My brother rakes / Have left me too in dismal Jakes.
at jakes, n.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 9: dicky, when Uncle did approach / To meet him, was without the Coach, / Driving with Jehu, in the Box.
at jehu, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 49: Then go thou prettiest Coat in Town, / And lay in Limbo with my Gown.
at limbo, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 41: And all the while, to lug him in, / Each swore he’d rather lose than win.
at lug, v.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 29: She took the Member-mug, and slop / Comes all on Richard, Juice and Sop.
at member mug (n.) under member, n.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake 18: Wives and Servants, Girls and Daughters, / Must keep a Padlock on their Quarters; / If Dick came in the way to mouze ’em.
at mouse, v.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 19: Ods Wounds, said Dick, Blood where’s your manners.
at od zounds! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 11: You shall have the first plucking of her Feathers.
at pluck, v.
[UK] Progress of a Rake 38: And when he’s got the ready Rhino, / He hopes they’ll see their lov’d Divino.
at rhino, n.1
[UK] Progress of a Rake [title page]: III. His going to Brasen-Nose College at Oxford; being expell’d for his Debaucheries [...] with his Whoring, Roaring, Ranting, Swearing, Fighting &c.
at roar, v.
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