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The Female Wits choose

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[UK] Female Wits II i: Well, sheep-biters, begin!
at sheep-biter (n.) under bite, v.
[UK] Female Wits I ii: Now have I such a mind to kick him i’ the chops.
at chops, n.1
[UK] Female Wits I i: Damme, I dare fight!
at damme!, excl.
[UK] Female Wits in Morgan Female Wits (1981) III i: Dinner be damned! I’ll never eat more.
at damn, v.
[UK] Female Wits III i: Where the devil are these blockheads?
at where the devil...?, phr.
[UK] Female Wits I ii: I believe our People wou’d dance after any Tom-Dingle for a pen’rth of Sugar-plums.
at tom doodle, n.
[UK] Female Wits I i: God Gad!
at gad, n.1
[UK] Female Wits II i: I’ll be hanged if it don’t bring a swingeing audience on the third day.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Female Wits III i: My coat is as full of wrinkles as an old woman’s face, by jove.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[UK] Female Wits I i: Oh my stars, she has pulled my head-clothes off!
at my stars!, excl.
[UK] Female Wits I ii: After, you shall be sure to behold his ill-favoured phiz peeping out behind the scenes at both houses.
at phiz, n.1
[UK] Female Wits II i: I’ll be hanged if it don’t bring a swingeing audience on the third day.
at swingeing (adj.) under swinge, v.
[UK] Female Wits III i: Good Mr What-d’-call-’um, this last speech to the highest pitch of raving.
at whatd’youcallhim, n.
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