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Works (1760) II 198: I’ll have one of the wigs to carry into the country with me, and please the pigs .at an’t please the pigs, phr.
Works (1760) II 198: I’ll have one of the wigs to carry into the country with me, and please the pigs . Saints in Uproar n.p.: To banter folks out of their senses [F&H].at banter, v.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 73: Who are the principal bell-weathers of this mutiny?at bell-wether, n.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 77: Bred up to plundering of hedges, nimming of cloaks [...] and bilking of their landladies.at bilk, v.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 74: Such a booby as thou art, [...] dispute [...] with a person of my quality.at booby, n.1
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 74: How now, bully Royster.at bully, n.1
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 74: All their hectoring and making this boisterous noise.at hector, v.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 78: We beat the hoofs as pilgrims.at beat the hoof (v.) under hoof, n.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 74: Dark nights will come, and then I’ll substantially thrash your jacket for you.at thrash someone’s jacket (v.) under jacket, n.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 73: The soldiers call them vagrants [...] The women [...] exclaim against lobsters and tatterdemallions.at lobster, n.1
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 73: A huge, two-handed lubber, St. Christopher I think they call him.at lubber, n.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 77: Bred up to plundering of hedges, nimming of cloaks [etc.].at nimming (n.) under nim, v.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 74: How now, bully Royster.at roister, n.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 81: You must put these shams upon blockheads and not upon me.at put a sham upon (v.) under sham, n.1
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 73: The soldiers call them vagrants [...] The women [...] exclaim against lobsters and tatterdemallions.at tatterdemallion, n.
Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 80: Carry off those wastecoateers and make them atone [...] with a fortnight’s beating of hemp.at waistcoateer, n.
in Works (1707) I 103: A pulpit-drubber by profession, who knows all the witches forms in the kingdom.at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 16: Lower sells penny prayer-books all week, and curls an amen in a Meeting-house on Sundays.at curl an amen (v.) under amen, n.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 84: I put no confidence in the king [...] should he pack up his awls for the other world I would not trust him.at pack up one’s alls and be gone (v.) under pack, v.1
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 184: A fart for our creditors.at fart...!, a, excl.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 187: My lord Rochester’s songs are mine arse to it.at my arse to...! (excl.) under arse, n.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 260: I had orders in every room against cathedral exercise, or bestial back-slidings, and made it ten shillings forfeiture for any that were caught in such actions.at backsliding (n.) under back, adj.2
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 11: What other business can a man and woman have in the dark, but [...] to make the beast with two backs?at make the beast with two backs (v.) under beast, n.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 4: I told the Hibernian, that old birds were not to be taken with chaff.at old bird, n.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 184: If ever I catch the strumpet in these territories, I’ll tear up the bung-hole of her filthy firkin, but I’ll reward her for her bitching.at bitch, v.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 251: I am sensible it is as hard a matter for a pretty woman to keep herself honest in a theatre, as it is for an apothecary to keep his treacle from flies in hot weather; for every libertine in the audience will be buzzing about her honey-pot, and her virtue must defend itself by abundance of fly-traps, or those flesh-loving insects will soon blow upon her honour, and when once she has had a maggot in her tail, all the pepper and salt in the kingdom will scarce keep her reputation from stinking.at fly-blown, adj.
‘Letters from Dead to Living’ in Works (1760) II 259: I had a parcel of honest religious girls [...] as ever pious matron had under a tuition in a Hackney boarding-school.at boarding school, n.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 186: [He] was so very bobborous two days ago, tho’ he’s near seventy, that he bid me look out for a soft-handed she devil to give him a little frication.at bobbish, adj.
‘Letters from the Dead to the Living’ in Works (1707) II 168: Believing for some Reasons he had an underhand Design of liquoring his boots for him .at liquor one’s boots, v.
Letters from the Dead to the Living in Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1927) 232: The greatest monarch of the universe and I are brother-starlings, [...] the eldest son of the church, and the little Scarron have fished in the same hole. [Ibid.] 378: I hear you kept the poor titmouse under such slavish subjection that a peer of the realm could not so much as come in to be brother-sterling [sic] with you.at brother starling (n.) under brother, n.
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