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[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I iii: Wee’l make the new bed cry Jiggy Joggy.
at jig-a-jig, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III ii: It is the Arsivarsiest Aufe that ever crept into the world.
at arsey-varsey, phr.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III i: That I may [...] Triumph / Over the lustful stallions of our time: / Bed-bounders, and leap-Ladies.
at bed athlete (n.) under bed, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I iii: Come, biddy, come away.
at biddy, n.2
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I iii: mil.: That I will chick, old songs and over old ones, / Old as thy reverend self, my Chick a bird. quic.: She cals me chick and bird: The common names / With wives that Cuckold their cravend husbands.
at bird, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III iii: Of all / Features and shapes, from the huckle-back’d Bum-creeper.
at bum-creeper (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I i: l heard the bravest noise / Of laughter at a wicked accident / Of Marriage, that was chopt up this Morning.
at chop, v.1
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I iii: Half a dozen chopping Children.
at chopping, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor IV iv: nat.: How now, what’s that? Ha’ you a black coney-berry in your house? quic.: Stay Catelina. Nay, she may be seen.
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III iii: The devil is in these young Tits, / And wildfire in their Cruppers.
at crupper, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor II i: All the Doddy-poles in Town can purge / Out of her while she lives.
at doddypoll, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I ii: Has he Cadzooks?
at gadzooks! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor II ii: Clap those Goatish Roarers up.
at goatish (adj.) under goat, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III iii: His wife, by whom he should had comfort [...] Should with her light heels make him heavie-headed.
at light heels, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor IV iv: But saw you not a Moor-hen there [...] She is queen / Of the Nights triumph.
at hen, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I iii: There was a Lady lov’d a swine. Honey quoth she; And wilt thou betrue love mine. Hoogh, quoth he.
at honey, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III ii: He compounded for a sum of money with an old man, one Hulverhead, to keep him for his life time.
at hulverhead, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III iii: The old Jew Quicksands has lost his wife.
at Jew, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor V i: Even the Ranck-rider of the town, Sir, one Master Nathaniel Banelasse.
at rank rider, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor V i: Even the Ranck-rider of the town, Sir, one Master Nathaniel Banelasse.
at rider, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I iii: Outragious Roysters.
at roister, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor IV v: I fear we shall be smoak’d then.
at smoke, v.1
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor IV iv: If I do chance to clap your Barbary buttock / In all her bravery, and get a snatch / In an odd corner, or the dark.
at snatch, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I i: But he will never split her, that’s the best on’t. I hope she’le break his heart first.
at split, v.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III i: That I may [...] Triumph / Over the lustful stallions of our time: / Bed-bounders, and leap-Ladies.
at stallion, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor III iii: The devil is in these young Tits, / And wildfire in their Cruppers.
at tit, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I ii: Farewel wag-tail. Marry thee quoth a! That’s wife’s work indeed!
at wagtail, n.
[UK] R. Brome Eng. Moor I ii: Zooks what mean you [...] Zookes now your bitch has bit me.
at zooks!, excl.
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