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[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: Thy four chief domestics are — a withered Abigail — a superannuated steward — a ghost — and a conjurer.
at abigail, n.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer I i: Those two or three worthy gentlemen are impos’d upon, cheated, bubbled, abus’d, bamboozled.
at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer IV i: An ungracious bird!
at bird, n.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer V i: You need not be a blab.
at blab, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: Give me your hand, chicken.
at chicken, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer I i: Thou art always cracking and boasting.
at crack, v.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer I i: Thou dost not know what mischief it might do thee, if such a silly dog as thee should offer to speak to it.
at dog, n.2
[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: Your lady must make haste, my duck. [Ibid.] IV i: But, hark you, duckling!
at duck, n.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer II i: A very smock-fac’d man.
at smock-faced, adj.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer IV i: That is a good one indeed!
at good one, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: What Goodman Two-fold?
at good man (n.) under good, adj.1
[UK] J. Addison The Drummer II i: I’ll be hanged if this ghost be not one of Abigail’s familiars.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer I i: Why, faith, thou wert a very lucky hit, that’s certain.
at hit, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer V i: I must stop this old fellow’s mouth, I must not be sparing in hush-money.
at hush money, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: Pax on him, what do I give him the hearing for!
at pax on —!, excl.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer V i: You know what your word cost Sir George, a purse of broad pieces.
at piece, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: I will be flattered, that’s pos!
at pos, adj.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer I i: What, you sot! are you grown pot-valiant?
at pot-valiant (adj.) under pot, n.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer IV i: He looks like a put — a queer old dog as ever I saw in my life.
at put, n.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer V i: Small beer! rot-gut!
at rotgut, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: Marry him! [...] there would be no staying in this house for us if she did. That young rake-hell would send all the old servants a grazing.
at send a-grazing (v.) under send, v.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: But see! smoak the doctor.
at smoke, v.1
[UK] J. Addison Drummer I i: What dost thou do in bed with this spindle-shank’d fellow?
at spindleshanks, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer Prologue: A raw young thing, who dares not tell his name.
at thing, n.
[UK] J. Addison Drummer III i: I’ll have a pretty tight girl.
at tight, adj.
[UK] Drummer July 2/1: The review of the stage musical, ‘Boy Meets Boy,’ in DRUMMER No. 5 is exactly the kind of faggotry I had hoped to avoid in The Leather Fraternity.
at faggotry, n.
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