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[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 17: If any one asks you who banged your bones, say, Long Meg of Westminster once met with you.
at bang, v.1
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 12: I’ll learn thee to arrest a man in our house, I’ll make thee a spectacle for all catch-poles.
at catchpole, n.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster (1750) 9: Pho! said Usher, jeeringly.
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 19: Meg being a Laundress in the town, raised the best of the women.
at laundress, n.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 18: He asked who struck him? Marry, quoth Meg, I did.
at marry!, excl.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 39: Taking the sculls herself, rowed him over at the boat’s arse.
at arse, n.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 6: If any stale Cutter comes in and thinks to pay the shot with swearing, hey! gogs! wounds!
at cutter, n.1
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 17: To filch anything out of a house [...] I hold it in scorn.
at filch, v.1
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 6: If any stale Cutter comes in and thinks to pay the shot with swearing, hey! gogs wounds! [Ibid.] 20: By gogs blood you villain. [Ibid.] 42: He straight in a bravery swore gogs wounds whore, what a pot is this.
at gog, n.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 41: Containing how she used James Dickins, that was called Huffing Dick.
at huffing, adj.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 3: Marry quoth shee (being a very merry and pleasant woman).
at marry!, excl.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 41: If any Ruffler came in, and made an alehouse brawl. [Ibid.] 45: You have been counted a lewd woman, a swearer, a ruffler, a fighter, and a brawler.
at ruffler, n.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 6: If any stale Cutter comes in and thinks to pay the shot with swearing, hey! gogs! wounds!
at pay one’s shot (v.) under shot, n.1
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 9: Marry Master Vicar, quoth Meg, just five shillings and three pence. Five shillings and three pence, quoth he; why I tell thee foule Stallion, I owe but three shillings and a penny.
at stallion, n.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 47: Here is ten angels in gold, and fourteen shillings in white money.
at white money (n.) under white, adj.
[UK] Long Meg of Westminster 6: If any stale Cutter comes in and thinks to pay the shot with swearing, hey! gogs! wounds!
at wounds!, excl.
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