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[UK] M.P. Andrews Belphegor (1788) 6: Enter Booze, With a Hatchet, a Wicker Bottle and a Pitcher. [Ibid.] 11: My husband as great and as drunk as a lord, / Thinkas the pleasure is all for Sir Booze.
at booze, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Belphegor (1788) 7: My horse was knocked up and I was obliged to leave him.
at knocked up, adj.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Belphegor (1788) 12: I have more power than the high sheriff, and more wealth than a nabob.
at nabob, n.
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