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The Busy Body choose

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[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act III: Nay, adod, I will.
at adod!, excl.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act III: My Consent! what does my Charmer mean?
at charmer, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act III: You and my most conscionable Guardian here [...] plotted and agreed, to chouse a very civil, honest, honourable gentleman, out of a Hundred Pound.
at chouse, v.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act II: I can but laugh, ha, ha! to think how damn’d mad he’ll be.
at damned, adv.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body III i: Who the Devil lives here?
at who the devil...?, phr.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body II i: Po’gh for a hundred Things: I can’t for my Life tell you for what.
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act I: ’Tis a vast Addition to a Man’s Fortune [...] to be seen in the Company of leading Men; for then we are thought to be Politicians, or Whigs, or Jacks, or High-Flyers.
at high-flyer, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act V: I have Estate enough to purchase a Barony, and be the immortalizing of the whole Family of the Gripes.
at gripes, n.1
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act III: Impossible, without he huffs the lady, and makes love to Sir Francis.
at huff, v.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act III: Egad, I’ll raise the Neighbourhood – Murder, Murder.
at murder!, excl.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act V: Ods precious, I am happier than the Great Mogul.
at ods precious! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act III: To-morrow morning we come slap upon them with a Wedding that nobody thought on.
at slap, adv.
[UK] S. Centlivre Busy Body Act V: There was a consenting Look with those pretty Twinklers, worth a Million.
at twinklers, n.
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