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[UK] Cibber Refusal 44: Adod! I’ll have a little more of her —.
at adod!, excl.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 9: They had me all Bob as a Robin: In short, being out of my Money, I was forced to come the Castor, and tumbled for Five Hundred dead.
at bob, v.1
[UK] Cibber Refusal 13: Hey-day! What is Marriage a Bubble too?
at bubble, n.1
[UK] Cibber Refusal 64: Ha! ha! I-gad this is a pleasant Question indeed.
at egad!, excl.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 15: Pshah! a meer Flash in the Pan.
at flash in the pan, n.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 37: Not being in the least apprehensive either of the Stocks rising to that Price, or that this Rattle-headed Fellow could possiby make such a Fortune in that time.
at rattle-head, n.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 35: She’s in a high Miff.
at miff, n.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 43: Odsbodlikins, Mr. Frankly, you are an ingenious Gentleman.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 10: The queer Cull promises to advance me t’other three, and bring me home, provide you will let him sneak into your List for a cool Thousand.
at queer cull (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 9: I owe Crop the Lender a Brace, and if I have a single Simon to pay him, rot me.
at simon, n.1
[UK] Cibber Refusal 16: I rais’d my Fortune, Sir, as Milo lifted the Bull, by sticking to it every day [...] I sous’d them with Premiums, Child, and laid them on thick when the Stock was low.
at stick to, v.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 16: I rais’d my Fortune, Sir, as Milo lifted the Bull, by sticking to it every day [...] I sous’d them with Premiums, Child, and laid them on thick when the Stock was low.
at thick, adv.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 42: Since our Men of Quality are got so thick into Change-Alley, who knows but in time a great Man’s Word may go as far as a Tradesman’s?
at thick, adj.
[UK] Cibber Refusal 44: Ah! it’s a wheedling Toad!
at toad, n.
[UK] Cibber Refusal III (1777) 49: Sir Gilb. Are you peery, as the cant is? In short do you know what I would be at now? Char. Will you give leave to guess, Sir?
at peery, adj.
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