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The Humours of a Coffee-House choose

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[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 25 June 6: But a Fig for the French king and all his Fortresses.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 20 Aug. 7: Adsdeath, Sir.
at ads, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 24 Oct. 43: Blood and Gunpowder, what would you have one do?
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 19 Dec. 75: Matters and Things of that Nature move but heavily; some People hang an Arse plaguily.
at hang an arse under arse, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 16 July 18: Why must the Common People be Bamboozled out of their Senses, and made believe Inconsistencies and Contradictions.
at bamboozle, v.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 16 July 19: I wou’d not Banter you by any means.
at banter, v.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 25 June 1: [dramatis personae] Hazard, a Gamester, Bite, a Sharper.
at bite, n.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Sept. 24: I’ll hold fifty to one, his Virgin has not only bit him of his Money, but Pox’d him into the Bargain.
at bite, v.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 17 Oct. 40: Whoever esteems them [...] proves himself such a Fanatical Blockhead.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 20 Aug. 8: I should have been at least Twenty Lines to the poorer for him, and that’s no small loss to a Poet in such a Blockheadly Age.
at blockheaded, adj.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 21 Nov. 62: You would have look’d as Blue, as you think we do, now so greatly disappointed.
at blue, adj.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 3 Oct. 32: [He] bid her be gone, or he would run his Bodkin into her Tail.
at bodkin, n.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 20 Aug. 8: I wish the Furies had the Clawing of that Impertinent Prattle-Box.
at prattle-box, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 3 Oct. 30: Pray, let’s have done with all things that relate to Religion [...] I must confess the World is now grown so Devoutly Captious, that it is almost Blasphemy to say a Man looks like a Knave that has a Broad-Brimm’d Hat on.
at broadbrim (n.) under broad, adj.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 5 Dec. 67: Bully Dawson, who being upbraided by a Gentleman [...] reply’d You are much mistaken, Sir, I am only Kick’d by one half of the World, and the other half I Kick.
at bully, adj.2
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 19 Dec. 76: Tax me with having a Hand in such a Barbarous Business, you Calf-lik’d Coxcomb, I’ll beat you into Jelly.
at calf, n.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 5 Dec. 71: Jupiter being Detriment with Virgo also, foretels a great Destruction of Men [...] many Chickens in Great Britain shall Die of the Pip.
at chicken, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 25 June 3: Oh the Felicities of Coffee-House Chit Chat!
at chitchat, n.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Sept. 24: I am almost in as bad Condition as if I had been Clap’d.
at clapped, adj.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Oct. 36: We shall have some Young Prophetical Imposter [...] who is to declare some strange Wonder as soon as born, and to Prophesie in his Swadling Clouts.
at clout, n.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 26 Dec. 79: When a Parson meets him in the Street [....] and if he’s a Non-Con, he’ll kick him into the Kennel and Piss upon him.
at non-con, n.
[UK] N. Ward Humours of a Coffee-House in Writings II 315: The Damnd’st Distemper that ever crept into the Cony-burrow of Copulation.
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 20 Aug. 7: I cannot, with Patience, hear a Finikin Little Crack-fart accuse Persons of Honour [...] with such Indecent Familiarities.
at crackfart (n.) under crack, v.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 19 Dec. 76: I’ll Crack your Crown as a Man woul’d crack a Nutshell.
at crack, v.1
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 13 Aug. 3: What will the Damage be? Perhaps it may a little advance the Price of Patches in Rag-Fair [...] ’Tis a meer Trifle not worth speaking of.
at damage, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Oct. 34: The Effeminate Tom-Doodle of a Fop, looks like a Catamite.
at tom doodle, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 9 July 10: This I know, he’s a great Essex Calf.
at Essex calf (n.) under Essex, adj.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Sept. 22: He’s a Gentleman that values no more the spending two or three Guineas [...] than a Citizen’s Wife does, to be well Kiss’d upon a Horn-Fair Day.
at horn fair, n.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Sept. 23: Flesh and Nouns Sir! [Ibid.] 3 Oct. 29: Flesh and Eels, Doctor!
at flesh!, excl.
[UK] Humours of a Coffee-House 19 Dec. 74: Such a Rumbling in my Guts.
at gut, n.
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