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[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 110: Poor wrinkled weather beaten Madams / led by the noses like Jack Adams.
at Jack Adams, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 50: The [...] wilfull Maid / With strings and collars Apes to lead.
at ape-leader, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 95: He was Ascanius Padagouge / A most austere, ars-firking dog.
at arse-firking (adj.) under arse, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 95: He was Ascanius Padagouge / A most austere, ars-firking dog.
at arse-firking (adj.) under arse, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 123: A River that will make a man / [...] / As drunks as ever Davids Sow.
at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 13: The land is thine as sure as Gun.
at sure as a gun under sure as..., phr.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 147: The signe of Gridiron on this place, / Shews you shall lose you very Arse. / [...] / Fair Tarquel look for his advice, / Will teach thee how to cogg thy dice.
at lose one’s ass under ass, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 47: Fair Ganimed great Joves Bordachio.
at bardash, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 19: Few men by gods though lov’d as dearly / As men themselves love juice of Barley / [...] / Have cause to brag of their return.
at barley, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 60: Such rude Belswaggers, all Pickt-hatch / Nor Bear-garden did ever match.
at bellswagger, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) 133: All the dainty, Lazie blouses.
at blowse, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 98: Which grim Judge hearing sends his bob-tails / To comb his tawnie skin with Hob-nails.
at bobtail, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 44: Proud Pedants, old Arse-whipping Dunces, / That nothing know but make great bounces.
at bounce, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) 136: He beggd him ore and ore again / To clear his eyelids, but in vain, / For Palinure he could not coax: / Friend, quoth he, y’are in the wrong box.
at in a box under box, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 37: For women then, for all their freaks, / Lov’d bellies better than their backs; / [...] / Else Marrow-bones and Brisket-beef / Had been poor toyes for Pluto’s Wife .
at brisket beef (n.) under brisket, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 42: They in their eyes all holding fingers, / Star’d up like Bucks beholding Strangers.
at buck, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 13: Many a rap on pate full rough, / Many a slash quite through thy buff.
at buff, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 80: T’other lay’s on cuff after cuff, / Not minding whither’s skin be buff.
at buff, adj.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 50: For you must know he took’t in snuff / That any Rock should him out-huff.
at bully-rock (n.) under bully, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 78: Such a dam’d lick athwart the back, / As made his very bum-strings crack.
at bum-strings (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 46: Fierce Gryphons all with armed gumms, / More terrible than Sheriffs Bumms.
at bum, n.2
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 75: I in Kitchin rul’d the Roast, / And for a Hash but over-sauc’d, / Have churn’d the Cook till from his Bum / I made the yellow Butter come.
at butter, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 120: Some in the next Woods refuge take, / For all their Arses buttons make.
at one’s arse makes buttons (v.) under button, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 3: Strangely ore-shot to let a Looby, / So treacherously give her the go-by.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 147: In Venus Mount I spie a C / [...] / These C’s these C’s take heed my Son / These C’s has many a man undone.
at C, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 67: At this same play makes others cack.
at cack, v.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 15: In spite of all the Devils in Hell, / Thy enemies cake shall all be dough.
at cake is dough under cake, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 54: Dear Friend, quo he, what makst thou here? / [...] / Has Phoebus thus turn’d Cat in Pan?
at cat in (the) pan (n.) under cat, n.1
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) 144: He Sarjeants and his Catch-poles, they / Were certain Monsters, th’ugliest Rogues.
at catchpole, n.
[UK] J. Phillips Maronides (1678) 130: Thy own Son, whom thou shalt get / With so much fury, so much sweat, / That thou shalt dye with Rem in re.
at caught with rem-in-re, phr.
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