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Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 143: I care not a fart for my Lord M—r.at not care a fart, v.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 143: I care not a fart for my Lord M—r. Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 36: That Mrs. Abigail there, who is one of her servants. [Ibid.] 140: The next we encounter’d was a Quaker, and his handmaid, with whom our merry pilot began his drollery, viz. Well done, holy ones, I see Aminadab will have his Abigail.at abigail, n.1
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 60: In some places they call gaming-houses Academies; but I know not why they should inherit that honourable name.at academy, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 98: Her mother sold nappy ale in black pots under a thatch’d roof.at nappy (ale), n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 140: The next we encounter’d was a Quaker, and his handmaid, with whom our merry pilot began his drollery, viz. Well done, holy ones, I see Aminadab will have his Abigail.at Aminadab, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 72: Why are you not as much offended [...] to hear almost every gentleman call one another Jack, Tom and Harry?at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 89: A diminutive apothecary that’s just arse-high.at arse-high under arse, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 13: A Bartholomew baby-beau [...] with his pockets as empty as his brains.at bartholomew baby, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 25: The Devil’s broker [...] on that day, he employs in adjusting his accounts, and playing at back-gammon with his principal.at play backgammon (v.) under backgammon, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 14: Here a poet scampers for’t as fast as his legs will carry him, and at his heels a brace of bandog-bailiffs.at bandog, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 33: The first word that came from him was Master, I am your very humble servant; and the next Hey, you bastard you, on account of my putting a civil question, relating to two young ladies.at bastard, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 137: Get you home, you old cuckold, look under your wife’s bed, and see what a lusty gardner has been planting, a son of a wh-re in your parsley-bed.at parsley bed, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 31: There was a shopkeeper’s wife retailing out the sight of the best in Christendom, for a half-penny a head, to young Templers, Moorfields sharpers, and old citizens that had taken the opportunity of their wives being abroad; and being ready to run mad themselves, were come to divert themselves with the sight of those that were actually so.at best in Christendom, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 112: My pretty rogue, shan’t we have a betty of wine?at betty, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 70: I put the bilk upon a pick-pocket, who measured my estate by the length and bulkiness of my new wig (which God knows is not paid for).at bilk, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 61: Whereupon a bully of the blade came strutting up to my very nose, in such a fury.at knight of the blade, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 69: In another pew was a nest of such hard-favour’d she’s, that you would have blest yourself.at bless oneself (v.) under bless, v.1
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 69: Where you might see in one pew a covey of handsome, buxom bona roba’s with high heads. [Ibid.] 113: Two jolly bona roba’s slip in.at bona roba, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 137: How now, you two confederate brimstones, where are you swimming with your fine top-knots, to invite some Irish bully or Scotch Highlander to scour your cloven furbelows for a petticoat pension?at brimstone, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 63: A pretty engine to preserve bankers and insurers from breaking, and when they are broke, that they will pay all their debts as far as it may stand with their convenience.at broke, adj.1
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 75: Thus they take a sip of tea, then for a draught or two of scandal to digest it.at scandal-broth, n.
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(1744) III 60: In comparison of whom [i.e. cheating gamesters] the common bulkers and pick-pockets are a very honest society.at bulker, n.1
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 35: A bully beau comes drunk into the pit, screaming out, Damn me, Jack, ’tis a confounded play, let’s to a whore.at bully-beau (n.) under bully, adj.2
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 120: How now, you two confederate brimstones, where are you swimming with your fine top-knots, to invite some Irish bully or Scotch Highlander to scour your cloven furbelows for a petticoat pension?at bully, n.1
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 14: Turn out there, you country putt, says a bully with a sword two yards long.at bully, n.1
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 68: The Doctor does not love butter’d buns, doubtless he is glad his first lady-wife is under ground, for he married again within two months after her death.at buttered bun, n.1
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 122: Here Irish, Scots and English meet very amicably, make a buz, and contend in nonsense.at buzz, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 33: I found my neighbour K— had been new christened [...] and was made a commission-officer by the name of Captain Whip-’em.at captain, n.
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 107: His belly is the counter-part of his back, and seems to poise the machine, and keep it in equilibrio on his cat-stick legs.at cat sticks (n.) under cat, n.1
Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 22: The Rose by Temple-Bar gave wine, / Exchang’d for chalk.at chalk, n.1
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