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[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe II i: As if the diuill were in their arses.
at arse, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe III i: Ile cashiere all my young barnicles.
at barnacle, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe II i: I haue knowne as tough blades as any are in England broke vpon a fetherbed.
at blade, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe II i: Ile make him know how to kisse your blind cheekes sooner.
at blind cheeks (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I ii: Gentlemen, and Tobacco-stinckers, and such like, are still buzzing where sweete meates are (like Flyes) but they make any flesh stinke that they blow vpon.
at fly-blown, adj.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe V i: Your wife is a Tilt-boate, any man or woman may goe in her for money ; she’s a Cunny-catcher.
at tilt-boat, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Cockatrice : You, mistris Salamanders, that feare no burning.
at burn, v.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I i: You might ha tane mee ith streete, and not ith’ Tauerne entire, you Cannibals.
at cannibal, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I i: I coulde teare out those false eyes, those Cats eyes, that can see in the night: punck I could.
at cat, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe V i: Your wife is a Tilt-boate, any man or woman may goe in her for money ; she’s a Cunny-catcher.
at cony-catcher, n.2
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Your Norfolke tumblers are but zanyes to connicatching punckes.
at cony-catching, adj.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe V i: She told us, that, inquiring at London for you or your son, your man chalked out her way to Ware.
at chalk out (v.) under chalk, v.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I i: I warrant her husband was forth a Towne all this while [...] whilst she was at home with her Plouers, Turkey, Chickens.
at chicken, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe V i: He’s not one of your fat city chuffs.
at chuff, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Fetherstone and my Lady Greensheild are rid to barter away their light commodities in Ware.
at commodity, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe II i: A Dutch Merchant, that would spill all he’s been able to make ith’ low countries, but to take measure of my Holland sheetes when I lye in ’em.
at low countries, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Are you a towne cowe and confesse you beare calues.
at cow, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Featherstones boy, like an honest crack-halter, laid open all to one of my prentices.
at crack halter (n.) under crack, v.2
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I i: I [...] neuer had the Grincoms: neuer sold one Maiden-head ten seuerall times.
at crinkum, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I i: Hee was dogd in, this is the end of all dycing.
at dog, v.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe V i: Drabs in my company : doe I looke like a Drab-driuer?
at drab-driver, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe II i: Min vader bin de grotest fooker in all Ausbrough.
at fucker, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Ow, by gad, out a cry.
at gad, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I ii: Doe you not think this minx is some naughty packe whome my husband hath fallen in loue with, and meanes to keep [...] at his garden house.
at garden house, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe V i: Her hopes if her Grannam dye without issue, better.
at grannam, n.2
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I i: I knowe we shall haue Gudgions bite presently [...] you shall liue like Knights fellowes.
at gudgeon, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe III i: Ile be hangd if she do not dub him.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I iii: Oh Maister Maybery! before your Seruant to daunce a Lancashire Horne-pipe.
at hornpipe, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Away I love no such implements in my house.
at implement, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Fetherstone, like a crafty mutton-monger, persuades Greenshield.
at mutton-monger, n.1
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