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The London-Bawd choose

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[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 68: An old Bawd that kept a house of Private Entertainment for the Accommodation of Persons of Quality of both Sexes.
at accommodation house, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 125: My Husband’s Impotency [...] grew daily more upon him; and my desires after that due benevolence he could not give me, still increas’d.
at benevolence, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 5: When he makes her a Visit, She always help him to a fresh Bit.
at fresh bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 87: A Pox take ye, for an Old Bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) Ch. iv: Do you but bring us together, and then leave it to me to make him bite.
at bite, v.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) Ch. i: She’ll leave them such a Twinging Remembrance in their Joynts, that their very Bones shall ake, but she’ll make them repent that e’er they had to do with her.
at bone-ache (n.) under bone, n.1
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 164: Here’s to ye, says she; and drank off her Glass, and made John fill a Brimmer and drink it off.
at brimmer, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 1: She has formerly been one of Sampson’s Foxes, and has carried so much fire in her Tail, as has burnt all those that have had to do with her.
at burn, v.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 51: My Chuck! Thou’rt the best Friend I have. [Ibid.] 53: He was her Chuck and Dear.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 6: The Bane of Virtue [...] Pander to Hell, is this She-Cockatrice.
at cockatrice, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 3: Of a Countrey-Gentleman she makes a Cods-head.
at cod’s head, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 71: She [...] was supplied with Money likewise, without robbing of her Husband of his Coin.
at coin, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) Ch. vii: But there were other Citizens Wives that were as full of Leachery as this, tho’ not so handsome: And they found Trading very sensibly Decay, since this Fair Sinner was enter’d into the Colledge.
at college, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 76: Why, Madam, says he, I want a certain sort of a Fleshly Convenience.
at convenient, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 173: No, Damn it, says she, I had rather be my own Mistress.
at damn it!, excl.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) Ch. v: He danc’d the Corranto’s two or three times; and might have done it oftner if he wou’d.
at dance, v.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 1: She has formerly been one of Sampson’s Foxes, and has carried so much fire in her Tail, as has burnt all those that have had to do with her.
at fire, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 153: The Gentleman he Named, being one [...] I had often supply’d with some of my First-rate-Frigots, as he used to call ’em.
at frigate, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 86: This is all Trick and Cheat; and I am only Funn’d out of five Guineas for nothing.
at fun, v.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 1: She sets up for Procurer of fresh Goods for her old Customers.
at goods, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 3: Of a Country-Gentleman she makes a Cods-head; and of a rich Citizens Son a Gudgeon.
at gudgeon, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 2: She is never without a store of Hackney Jades, which she will let any one Ride.
at hackney, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) Ch. ii: If I and such as I forsake your House, you may go Hang your selves.
at go hang...! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 3: [She is] a great Practitioner in Prick-Song, but she is most expert at a Horn-Pipe.
at hornpipe, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 103: The house which I now keep, is a house of Convenience for Gentlemen and Ladies; and goes under several Denominations: Some calls it The School of Venus; others a Vaulting School; others the Assignation-house; And some that are my Enemies, bestow upon it the Title of a Bawdy-house.
at house of convenience (n.) under house, n.1
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 47: A dirty homely Joan!
at joan, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 3: Of a Countrey-Gentleman she makes a Cods-head; and of a rich Citizens Son a Gudgeon; a Swordman in Scarlet, she takes for a Lobster.
at lobster, n.1
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 147: You shall see a Jolly Crew of Active Dames, which will perform such lecherous Agilities [...] by Madam Creswel, Posture Moll, the Countess of Alsatia, or any other German Rope-dancer whatever.
at posture moll (n.) under moll, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 12: Old Mother Damnable the Bawd [...] heard all their Allegations.
at Mother Damnable (n.) under mother, n.
[UK] London-Bawd (1705) 103: Cou’d you get none to serve you, but some Newgate-Stallion; One that us’d to Break up Houses, and Pick open Locks!
at Newgate nob (n.) under Newgate, n.
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