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The Merry Tricks of Leper the Tailor choose

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[Scot] Merry Tricks of Leper the Taylor 3: He takes a great big pin and staps it straight up thro’ the cushion, with its head on the chair and the point to her back-side.
at backside, n.
[Scot] Merry Tricks of Leper the Taylor 13: Oh, hoch, we are a parcel of poor beastly bodies, and we’re as beastly guided.
at beastly, adj.
[Scot] Merry Tricks of Leper the Taylor 17: John Muckle-cheeks and James Puff-and-Blaw, two Civileers, having more zeal than knowledge.
at blow, v.1
[Scot] Merry Tricks of Leper the Taylor 10: The imock powder began to operate and she let out a great fart. [...] ‘My faith,’ says the Laird, ‘Margaret, your arse would take a cautioner.’.
at fart, n.
[Scot] Merry Tricks of Leper the Taylor 18: There was a barber which always plagued Leper calling him a Prick-the-Louse.
at prick-(the-)louse (n.) under prick, v.2
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