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[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! V ii: One Fangs, a sergeant [...] he was called the Bandog o’ the Counter.
at bandog, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! V i: So well I like the play, / That I could wish all day / And night to be so beaten.
at beat, v.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! IV ii: They are like to bite o’ the bridle [i.e. to fast].
at bite (on) the bridle (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! III ii: Dost remember since thou and I clapped what-d’ye-call’ts in the garret?
at what-do-you-call-it, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! V i: Try her, good chuck, I warrant thee.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! V i: Fond fables tell of old / How Jove in Danae’s lap / Fell in a shower of gold, / By which she caught a clap.
at clap, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! II ii: ‘Ka me, ka thee’, runs through court and country.
at claw me and I’ll claw you under claw, v.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! III ii: But now he is dead, / And Laid in his bed, / And never will come again.
at come, v.1
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! II iii: Then clothe but her crupper in a new gown.
at crupper, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! I i: Marry faugh, goodman flat-cap! ’Sfoot!
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! IV ii: Marry, fyst o your Ruidess. I thought as much.
at foist, n.1
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! II iii: I must feign myself extremely amorous [...] part with her as passionately as she would from her foisting hound.
at foist, v.2
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! V v: Shun usurers, bawds, and dice, and drabs; / Avoid them as you would French scabs.
at French, adj.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! I i: Behind my back thou wilt swear faster than a French foot-boy.
at French, adj.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! V i: He that will do more for his daughter that has married a scurvy gold-end man.
at gold-end man (n.) under gold, adj.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! I i: Heyday, Ruffians’ Hall! Sword, pumps, here’s a racket indeed!
at Ruffian’s Hall, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! II ii: I have known poor Hob in the country, that has worn hob-nails on’s shoes, have as much villany in’s head as he that wears gold buttons in’s cap.
at hob, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! V i: Good faith, rather than thou shouldst pawn a rag more, I’d lay my Ladyship in lavender – if I knew where.
at lay (up) in lavender, v.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! II i: Why, ’sblood, you jolthead, where I am?
at jolterhead, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! I i: ’Slife, man, his father was a malt-man, and his mother sold gingerbread in Christ-church!
at man, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! III ii: Tush, ’tis no fit sauce for such sweet mutton!
at mutton, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! IV i: Death! Colonel, I knew you were overshot.
at overshot, adj.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! II i: Good-morrow, Knight Petronel.
at petronel, n.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! I i: Wipe thy bum with testons, and make ducks and drakes with shillings.
at play ducks and drakes with (v.) under play, v.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! I i: If a privy search should be made, what sort of furniture are you rigged now?
at rig, v.1
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! V i: And I not able to relieve her, neither, being kept so short by my husband.
at short, adj.1
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! I i: Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies!
at shot-clog (n.) under shot, n.1
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! I i: ’Slife, man, his father was a malt-man, and his mother sold gingerbread in Christ-church!
at ’slife!, excl.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! II iii: ’Slight, how thou terrifiest me!
at ’slight!, excl.
[UK] Chapman & Jonson Eastward Ho! III ii: ’Swounds, yet again!
at ’swounds!, excl.
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