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[UK] R. Brome Antipodes I iv: I am past a child / My selfe to thinke they are found in parsley beds, / Strawberry banks or Rosemary bushes.
at parsley bed, n.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes II ii: And you, Sir, you have got the trick of late / Of holding out your bum.
at bum, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes IV ix: Pox o’ your mumbling chops.
at chops, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes II ix: Come, come, ye Gallows-clappers.
at gallows-clappers, n.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes IV ii: Gip gaffer Shotten, faugh, / Take that for your coy Counsell.
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes IV xi: She [...] has made markets / Of twice foure thousand choyse virginities; / And twice their number of indifferent geare.
at gear, n.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes IV ii: Gip gaffer Shotten, fagh.
at shotten herring, n.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes V v: He had / Well put her to’t within.
at it, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes III vi: Kills Monster after Monster; takes the Puppets / Prisoners, knocks downe the Cyclops, tumbles all / Our jigambobs and trinckets to the wall.
at jiggumbob, n.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes IV ii: ser.: Sir here’s a Gentlewoman makes towards you. gent.: Me? she’s deceiv’d, I am not for her mowing.
at mow, v.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes IV ii: O murther, murther.
at murder!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes IV v: ’S nayles wheres the rest; is my poake bottome broake?
at ’snails!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome Antipodes V v: But for his yellows, / Let me but lye with you, and let him know it, / His jealousy is gone.
at yellow, adj.
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