Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

The New Academy choose

Quotation Text

[UK] R. Brome New Academy IV i: And when we are marri’d, I’le make her stick to’t before my face, I warrant you; or if she will make back-play, I’le play at nothing but back gammon with her.
at play backgammon (v.) under backgammon, n.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy V i: Do you begin to boggle, / And when I send for twenty pieces, do you / Send me but ten?
at boggle, v.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: And she ha’ not good box and steel, I shall so grull her, And then at Mumbledepeg I will so firk her.
at box, n.1
[UK] R. Brome New Academy III i: Cock, I protest Cock.
at cock, n.2
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II ii: Cods so, and why troe?
at cod, n.1
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: He Kennels his waterdog in Turnbull-street.
at dog, n.2
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: The unbegotten Hans that I mean to clap into thy Kelder.
at Hans-en-Kelder, n.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: And she ha’ not good box and steel, I shall so grull her, And then at Mumbledepeg I will so firk her.
at firk, v.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy III i: It seems, that you profess French qualities.
at French, adj.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy III i: But no more haytie twaytie tricks, I charge you. She shall not jaunt to this nor that town with you.
at hoity-toity, adj.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy V i: But perhaps you ha’ got / Some new found Horn-maker.
at horn-maker (n.) under horn, n.1
[UK] R. Brome New Academy IV i: whi.: Look you, Madam, here is a draught of my marriage-instrument to your lap. eph.: His instrument being drawn, I must put up my pipe and be gone.
at instrument, n.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II ii: And catch’t ifac, la, he, he, he.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: And she ha’ not good box and steel, I shall so grull her, And then at Mumbledepeg I will so firk her.
at mumble-peg, n.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: Doest see yond pretty mumping peece i’th’ shop there?
at mumper, n.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: Doest see yond pretty mumping peece i’th’ shop there?
at piece, n.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: I’ll ask her If she can speak with plums in her mouth; and then I’ll offer her a long one and two round ones.
at plum, n.1
[UK] R. Brome New Academy III i: Pox of your Lobster-claws.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] R. Brome New Academy I i: Your privy lodgings for your trunks and punks.
at punk, n.1
[UK] R. Brome New Academy II i: Sbobs I would not ha’ open’d it for fourty pound.
at ’sbobs!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy III i: For white-pots, pudding-pies, stew’d prunes, and Tansies. / To feast their Titts at Islington or Hogsden.
at tit, n.1
[UK] R. Brome New Academy IV i: Uds so! do you flirt out your unsavoury comparisons upon my sonne?
at ud, n.
[UK] R. Brome New Academy I in Works (1873) II 3: Where’s my Boykin? my Friskoe? my Delight?
at friskoe, n.
[UK] New Academy in Bold (1979) 33: Bonny Kate, kenny Kate, lay thy leg o’er me.
at lift a leg over (v.) under leg, n.
[UK] New Academy in Bold (1979) 33: There is no better thing than to be mowing / Than to be mowing.
at mow, v.
no more results