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The Boarding-School choose

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[UK] D’Urfey Boarding School A2: Dramatis Personae [...] Lady Addleplot, A Lust flaunting imperious Lady, a highflown stickler against the government.
at addle-plot, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 38: Backstitch has just now lock’d her up in a lower Room, where my little Butter-print was waiting for me.
at butter-print (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 38: Come along, my dear, dear, little Chicken.
at chicken, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 29: Let Bacchus now see, / We’re immortal as he, / Whilst drinking to moisten the Clay.
at moisten the clay (v.) under clay, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 39: But Ivads! my Heart goes a-pit-a-pat about it.
at egad!, excl.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 13: Oh Fy! your Gills look as red as a Turkey-Cocks.
at gills, n.1
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 25: Hell and Fire!
at hell!, excl.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School Dramatis Personae: Alderman Nincompoop, A sneaking Uxorious Citizen.
at nincompoop, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 19: Ay, tell, tell, snotty Nose, what care I?
at snotty-nose, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 11: S’Death, Sir! what do you mean?
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 11: I have not a Sous, upon my Honour, Sir.
at not a sou (n.) under sou, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 21: She’ll be lash’d swingingly.
at swingingly (adv.) under swinging, adj.1
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 40: I’ll dog ’em, and then go and inform my Lady; which, with some swinging Lye or other, may once reinstate me in her Favour, and procure me better Rigging.
at swinging, adj.1
[UK] C. Coffey Boarding-School 20: I’ll make you smart, / Before we part, / You paltry Thing.
at thing, n.
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