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The Devil to Pay choose

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[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I i: Why, you most pestilent Baggage, will you be hoop’d?
at baggage, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I iii: You cheating, bamboozling Villain.
at bamboozle, v.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I iii: By the Mackin, she’s drunk, bloody drunk.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: I am boozy, by the Lord Harry!
at boozy, adj.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay III iii: Ha, ha, ha! a Bull, a Bull.
at bull, n.2
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay III iii: A Tweak or two by the Nose, and half a Dozen Straps did the Business at last.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I ii: Ye Fry of the bottomless Pit! Who are you thus muffled, you Buzzard?
at buzzard, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: I believe she would have carbonardo’d him for his Apoplectick Drunkeness.
at carbonado, v.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I ii: A plaguy Non-con Parson worse than all.
at non-con, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I ii: I’m an old Dog at that [...] I’m as great a master at Blind-Man’s-Buff as any in Europe.
at old dog, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay III iii: Let every Bumper be a Facer.
at facer, n.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: Faugh! what a stink of Brimstone’s here!
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: Oh Gemini! who’s this?
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: I am boozy, by the Lord Harry!
at by the Lord Harry! (excl.) under Lord Harry, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: Work, come and spin, you Drab, or I’ll tan your Hide for you.
at tan someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I i: Why, you most pestilent Baggage, will you be hoop’d?
at hoop, v.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I i: Let him cut her short Of her Meat and her Sport, And ten times a Day hoop her Barrel, brave Boys.
at hoop someone’s barrel (v.) under hoop, v.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: Come to your Spinning, or else I’ll lamb you, you ne’er were so lamb’d since you were an Inch long.
at lam, v.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I ii: Take that lusty Lug, you sanctify’d Rogue, with Pound of Ear on each side.
at lug, n.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I iii: By the Mackin, she’s drunk, bloody drunk.
at by the mack! (excl.) under mack, n.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: Oh, Murder! Murder! Sir John Loverdale will hang you for this; Murder! Murder!.
at murder!, excl.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: Odsbobs! what a Clap was there! it shook up the very House.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I ii: There’s a perpetual Motion in that Tongue of hers, and a damn’d shrill Pipe.
at pipe, n.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I i: A pox on her, for a fanatical Jade!
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I iii: Where is this Quean? – Here, Nell!
at quean, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I iii: Rot you!
at rot you! (excl.) under rot!, excl.1
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I i: Did ever one hear such Stuff!
at stuff, n.
[UK] C. Coffey Devil to Pay I ii: I’ll bring up the rear with a swindging Turkey Pie.
at swingeing (adj.) under swinge, v.
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