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[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 451: I fully intended to have treated the old buck with another frolic.
at buck, n.1
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 101: What a’n’t you got out of that passion yet? why then, I’ll tell you what to do to cool yourself; call up your old friend, Monseer Slippery.
at cool, v.2
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 59: Do they spend all their time in flummering old women?
at flummer, v.
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 48: Hark you, Mrs. Frog [...] you may lie in the mud till some of your Monsieurs come to help you out of it.
at Frog, n.
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 97: We shall see some crinkum-crankum or other for our money; but I find it’s as arrant a take-in as ever I met with.
at take-in, n.
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 452: By Jingo, it has served me for a most excellent joke ever since.
at jingo!, excl.
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 462: I’ll be second to my friend Monsieur Clapperclaw here. Come, to it at once!
at Mr, n.
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 454: Odds my life, cried the Captain, I wish I’d been near you!
at ods my life! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 412: ‘Egad,’ said Mr Coverley, ‘the Baronet has a mind to tip us a touch of the heroicks this morning!’.
at tip, v.3
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 237: His mouth was wide distended into a broad grin at hearing his aunt give the beau such a trimming.
at trimming, n.1
[UK] F. Burney Evelina (1861) 287: Miss is so uppish this morning, that I think I had better not speak to her.
at uppish, adj.
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