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The Lucky Chance choose

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[UK] Behn Lucky Chance II ii: She’ll hear there are better things in the world than she has at home, and then, odsbobs, and then they’ll ha’t, adod they will, Sir Cautious. [Ibid.] III i: Adod, I’m as yare as a hawk at the young wanton.
at adod!, excl.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III vi: We’ll give young wenches leave to whine and blush, And fly those blessings which, ads bobs, they wish.
at ads, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III i: The baggage was damnably in love with a young fellow they call Bellmour.
at baggage, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance Epilogue: Tis Bulkers give, and Tubs must cure your pain [i.e. venereal disease].
at bulker, n.1
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance V ii: Look on that silly little round chitty-face.
at chitty-face, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance I i: Here, Rag, run and fetch her a pint of sack, there’s no other way of quenching the fire in her flabber chops.
at chops, n.1
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III v: ’Tis so, his gentlewoman has been at hot cockles without her husband, and he’s horn-mad upon it.
at play at hot cockles (v.) under cockles, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance I i: There’s the devil, Charles, had I but that ... but that seldom fails, but yet in vain.
at devil, the, phr.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance II i: Do you fob me off with my husband? [Ibid.] VI i: I’ll not be fobbed off. What do they take me for? A fool? An ass?
at fob someone off (v.) under fob, v.
[UK] Behn The Lucky Chance IV i: So, I’ll be hanged if he do not tell me I’m a cuckold now. I see it in his eyes.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III v: ’Tis so, his gentlewoman has been at hot cockles without her husband, and he’s horn-mad upon it.
at horn-mad, adj.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III vi: But, fags, you are naught to think of a young fellow, ads bobs, you are now. [Ibid.] V ii: I’ll undress it, effags I will, roguey.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance V iv: Some rich Commodities, I am sure, and some fine Knick-knack will fall to thy share.
at knick-knack, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III v: Why, what a pox, are you mad? ’Tis I, ’tis I, man.
at man, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance V vii: Mum! No words on’t.
at mum!, excl.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance I iii: Wise old men must nick their inclinations, for it is not as ’twas wont to be.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance I iii: Odsbobs, sweetheart, thy health.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance VI i: I rather think he pads.
at pad, v.1
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance V iii: Nay, I have a great mind to kiss his paw, Sir.
at paw, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III v: What, do you take me for a pimp, Sir?
at pimp, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III i: A piss of these bandstrings. The more haste, the less speed.
at piss!, excl.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance II i: A cloak to skulk in a-night, and a pair of piss-burned shammy breeches.
at piss-burned (adj.) under piss, n.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance II i: Rot your wine, d’ye think to pacify me with wine, Sir?
at rot!, excl.1
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance II i: ’Sbobs, what dost mean?
at ’sbobs!, excl.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III i: S’death how she stank.
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III v: I shall recover swingeing damages with a City jury.
at swingeing (adj.) under swinge, v.
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance I iii: Hark ye, little wanton tit, I’ll steal up and catch ye and love ye, adod I will.
at tit, n.1
[UK] Behn Lucky Chance III iii: Hah, zouns, what’s here, a hovel or a hog-sty?
at zounds!, excl.
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