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[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 23: A fig for mine and his majesty’s enemies.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 27: She kept the boarding school for young misses at the sign of the Three Chickens.
at boarding school, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 16: What, kiss and tell, my Buck of Brimstone.
at buck, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 22: Yes, my sweet chicken, I am in love with you up to the hilts.
at chicken, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 26: Since you and me togeder / De die of fortune cog.
at cog, v.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 31: Ambuscado This is the Marquis de Crapaud. Launch You are welcome, Mr. Marquis de Croppo. [Ibid.] 34: This is French Marquis [...] the Marquis de Croppo.
at crappo, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 27: Have you really forgotten your old friend Ambuscade, who was fellow-apprenctice with you in Fleet-Ditch, at the sign of the Bob-Major.
at Fleet-ditch, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 31: This is the Marchioness de Grenouille [...]..
at Frog, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 30: Gadso, child, the company are to be here immediately.
at gadso! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 17: (sings) ‘My Gilderoy was a bonny boy.’ – he was hang’d too.
at higher than Gilderoy’s kite, adj.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 28: O Jean Anglais! how kind you’ve always been, / To see us come with open arms, and let us take you in.
at take in, v.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 30: Or would you with Madam put in for a word, / He too has a key for my lady.
at key, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 25: Stab me! I don’t believe the French admiral’s taste is only for contemplation.
at stap me!, excl.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 22: O dear, sweet Monseer, spare my life.
at mounseer, n.
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