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A Puff at the Guinea Pigs choose

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[UK] A Puff at the Guinea Pigs n.p.: Both Lords and Ladies too, or wear they hair or wigs, sir, / If they throw flour on their heads, are called guinea pigs, sir.
at guinea pig, n.1
[UK] A Puff at the Guinea Pigs n.p.: To call a man like me a hog! – a very pretty rig, sir! / You saucy, snub nos’d, puppy dog; – nay, curse me, you’re a pig, sir!
at pig, n.
[UK] A Puff at the Guinea Pigs n.p.: To call a man like me a hog! – a very pretty rig, sir!
at rig, n.2
[UK] A Puff at the Guinea Pigs n.p.: The tailor flourishing his shears, then seized his tail so neatly, / That in a trice he whipt it off [...] The beau stood trembling by his side, while stitch-louse, full of gig, sir, / Cry’d ‘Smoke a beau, who’s lost his tail!’.
at stitch-louse (n.) under stitch, n.1
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