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[UK] A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 147: Although I wyll be dronken other whyles as a rat?
at drunk as a rat, adj.
[UK] A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 147: I Am a Flemyng, what for all that, [...] ‘Buttermouth Flemyng,’ men doth call me .
at buttermouth, n.
[UK] Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 151: There be many a good felowes, the wyche wyll drynke all out.
at drink all out (v.) under drink, v.
[UK] A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 207: There is no place to haue succour with-in seuen or eyght myles; and than a man shal haue but a typling house.
at tippling-house, n.
[UK] A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 149: Many of the men of the coutres wyll quaf tyl they ben dronk, & wyl pysse vnder the table where as they sit.
at piss, v.
[UK] A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 236: Beware of emptynge of pysse-pottes.
at pisspot, n.
[UK] A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 181: I haue money in my pooke.
at poke, n.2
[UK] A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 132: The other parte of Irland is called the wilde Irysh; and the Redshankes be among them.
at redshank, n.
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