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The Dictionary of Love choose

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[UK] Dict. of Love n.p.: cully Is one who gives much, and receives at most the appearances of love in return. Their tribe is very numerous: the chief divisions of them are, The marrying-cully, and the keeping-cully. The first is used as a cloak: the second, like an orange, squeezed of its juice, and thrown away.
at keeping cully, n.
[UK] Dict. of Love n.p.: danglers An insipid tribe of triflers, with whom the women divert themselves, in perfect innocence, when they have nothing better to do. They are in a class of beings beneath their monkeys, parrots and lap-dogs.
at dangler, n.
[UK] Dict. of Love n.p.: fribble This word signifies one of those ambiguous animals, who are neither male nor female; disclaimed by his own sex, and the scorn of both.
at fribble, n.
[UK] Dict. of Love n.p.: knights-errant This name was given to a set of hardy adventurers, whose professions was to run about the world in quest of broken bones, to redress wrongs done to widows, orphans, to the honour of ladies, or gentle damsels.
at knight, n.
[UK] Dict. of Love n.p.: paramour A Favourite gallant; a peculiar, a minion.
at peculiar, n.
[UK] Dict. of Love n.p.: QuarterQuarter is sometimes the debt of a superannuated lady to some petty-coat pensioner Adonis, upon whom she has no beauty to operate, but that of her strong-box.
at petticoat pensioner (n.) under petticoat, n.
[UK] Dict. of Love n.p.: Quarter Quarter is sometimes the debt of a superannuated lady to some petty-coat pensioner Adonis, upon whom she has no beauty to operate, but that of her strong-box.
at quarter, n.
[UK] Dict. of Love 171: The critics of the fair sex tell us they are vain, frivolous, ignorant, coquettish, capricious, and what not.
at what-not, n.
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