a.1770 T. Chatterton ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ Misc. (1778) 197: Adad, thou art in the right.at adad!, excl.
a.1770 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
1770 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.
a.1770 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.
a.1770 T. Chatterton ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ Misc. (1778) 187: ’Sblood and ’oons, you old harridan.at ’sblood!, excl.