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[UK] Cibber Womans Wit IV i: I’ll make him sley your Back-side for you!
at backside, n.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Have you not bit me, my dear Son?
at bite, v.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit III vii: lon.: Bid your Master send me up that Money I gave him. y.ra.: Phah! you need not give yourself that Trouble, Charles, I have no great Occasion for it now. maj.: Humh! That’s true again, my little Jacky! But you know a Body wou’d be sure ’tis safe! Humh!
at body, n.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: This Impudence melts my very Soul – There’s a Look! There’s a Forehead! There’s Brass for you!
at brass, n.1
[UK] Cibber Womans Wit IV i: What a Duce do you let him take her aside so for?
at what the deuce...?, phr.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: He woul’d ha’ put the Doctor upon me, and communicated his Design to Ned Friendly, who immediately told me of it; upon which (unknown to him) I flung away the Doctor, and clapt into the Box a Pair of true Mathematicks: Fortune was on my side, and in less than two Hours I fairly nickt him of Five Hundred Pound.
at put the doctor(s) on (v.) under doctors, n.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: O Dog! Villain! Rogue! Sirrah, How dare you look me in the Face? Draw!
at dog, n.2
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Igad I had as good show myself.
at egad!, excl.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit III v: She borrow’d a French Novel of him; and being told there was one deadly smutty page in it, she discreetly beg’d him to double it down, that she might be sure to avoid it.
at French, adj.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Hey! where abouts are you? Soho! Goal-bird! [sic].
at gaolbird, n.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit III iv: What a Devil, is he quite gone!
at gone, adj.1
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit III vii: S’death and Hell! Sir! you don’t think I’ll take this?
at hell!, excl.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit III v: O law! did I never tell you how she serv’d an amorous Book of Major Rakish’s t’other day.
at law!, excl.
[UK] Cibber Womans Wit IV i: Who’s that you will have the Whip for, you Loggerhead you?
at loggerhead, n.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit II i: Gad, take me, it has cost me the Lord knows what to qualify me for the Bar of Love.
at Lord knows under Lord, n.1
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: I very fairly nick’d him of Five Hundred upon the Square.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Cibber Womans Wit I i: maj.: Well! I must forgive you then! humh! y.ra.: I knew you wou’d, or else I had ne’er nick’d you.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Odsbud, I lose time, I must ferret the Dog.
at ods blood! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Cibber Womans Wit IV i: Don’t it make your Nose tingle! Odsfish! he is gone away with my Mother too!
at od’s fish! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Ounds! the Money!
at oons!, excl.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Then [...] pick’d up a Parson’s Wife, gave her the Remains of an old Clap, and so pawn’d her at Philip’s for three Pints of Spirit of Clary.
at pawn, v.1
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Let him [...] bilk his Lodging, – and now and then sharp a Play in the Side Box.
at sharp, v.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit III vii: A Sharper is a very good trade.
at sharper, n.
[UK] Cibber Womans Wit IV i: I’ll teach you to debauch my Son! I will, you stinking Jade you.
at stinking, adj.1
[UK] Cibber Womans Wit IV i: How, Squire! to tack you together! [...] Who is it, you have a Mind to marry?
at tack, v.
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Let him turn Beau, and live upon Tick.
at on tick under tick, n.3
[UK] Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Let’s you and I take a Whet of racy Canary.
at wet, n.
[UK] Cibber Love Makes a Man I i: I sent young Louis back again, as drunk as a Tinker, by Jove!
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] Cibber Love Makes a Man V i: We’ll toast our Noses over a chirping Bottle.
at chirping merry, adj.
[UK] Cibber Love Makes a Man II i : I won’t be chous’d of my Daughter.
at chouse, v.
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