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[UK] T. Chatterton ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ Misc. (1778) 197: Adad, thou art in the right.
at adad!, excl.
[UK] T. Chatterton ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ Misc. (1778) 196: After a noble dinner [...] when Sir Charles had retired, on cracking the nineteenth bottle, I ventured to open the business.
at crack, v.2
[UK] T. Chatterton ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ in Misc. (1778) 204: I instantly dispatched a messenger of love to her: and ’ere another moon had gilded up her horns, married her.
at moon, n.
[UK] T. Chatterton ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ in Misc. (1778) 194: I was now almost persuaded to love her in earnest; but I was a Sad Dog to suffer revenge.
at sad dog (n.) under sad, adj.
[UK] T. Chatterton ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ Misc. (1778) 187: ’Sblood and ’oons, you old harridan.
at ’sblood!, excl.
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