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[UK] Beau’s Misc. 69: The Shepherdess my Bark caress’d, Whilst he my Root (Love’s Pillows) kiss’d.
at bark, n.1
[UK] Beau’s Misc. 51: Cotzooks, my Dear, why, what’s the Meaning?
at cotzooks!
[UK] Beau’s Misc. 55: Here lies Sarah, Mary, and Elizabeth Briggs, And Humphry their Husband, who hum’d all their Gigs.
at gig, n.2
[UK] Beau’s Misc. 55: May Rats and Mice Consume his Shreds [...] May Nits and Lice, Infest his Beds [...] And may his Help-Mate horn him.
at horn, v.1
[UK] Beau’s Misc. 63: The Buxom young Widow has lost the first Game [...] She’ll [...] stand t’other Game, To pleasure again Her Merkin.
at merkin, n.
[UK] Beau’s Misc. 90: What’s that in which good Huswives take delight? / Which, tho’ it has no Legs, will stand up-right? [...] But by good Huswives rub’d before ’tis us’d, / That it may fitter for their Purpose-be, / When they the same to occupy are free.
at occupy, v.
[UK] Beau’s Misc. 63: To the Tune of Jolly Roger Twankdillow of Ploughden-Hill.
at plough, v.
[UK] Beau’s Misc. 55: Here lies ten in the Hundred in the Ground Fast-ram’d, ’Tis a hundred to Ten, if he is not damn’d.
at ten in the hundred (n.) under ten, n.
[UK] Beau’s Misc. 53: [as cit. 1709].
at wagtail, n.
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