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[UK] Congreve Love for Love I i: Your being in love with a lady that did not care a farthing for you in your prosperity.
at not care a farthing, v.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love V i: Odd, you’re cunning, a wary baggage.
at baggage, n.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love IV i: I am no blab, sir.
at blab, n.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love V i: Ouns! Cullied, bubbled, jilted, woman-bobbed at last – I have not patience.
at bob, v.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love I i: You have heard of a booby brother of mine that was sent to sea three years ago?
at booby, adj.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love I i: Your being in love with a lady that did not care a farthing for you in your prosperity.
at brass farthing (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love V i: Ouns! Cullied, bubbled, jilted, woman-bobbed at last – I have not patience.
at bubble, v.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love IV i: Why, father came and found me squabbling with yon chitty-faced thing, as he would have me marry.
at chitty-face, n.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love IV i: sir sampson: Mad! buckram: What, is he non compos? jeremy: Quite non compos, sir.
at non compos, adj.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love V i: Ouns! Cullied, bubbled, jilted, woman-bobbed at last – I have not patience.
at cully, v.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love Epilogue: These walls but t’other day were filled with noise / Of roaring gamesters, and your damme boys.
at damme-boy (n.) under damme!, excl.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love I i: Here’s a dog now, a traitor in his wine.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Congreve Love for Love IV i: They say so of witches’ prayer, and dreams and Dutch almanacks are to be understood by contraries.
at Dutch almanac (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love III xv: Flesh, you don’t think I’m false-hearted, like a Land-Man.
at flesh!, excl.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love III i: Thus we live at sea; eat biscuit, and drink flip.
at flip, n.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love II i: Well, jill-flirt, you are very pert.
at gill-flirt, n.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love IV i: I should have been finely fobbed indeed, very finely fobbed.
at fob, v.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love IV i: Gads-bobs, does he not know me?
at gadsbobs! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love II i: O Gemini!
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love V i: That he shall, or I’ll burn his globes.
at globe, n.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love II i: Sirrah, you’ll be hanged. I shall live to see you go up Holborn Hill.
at go up, v.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love I i: Hang him, he has nothing but the Seasons and Twelve Caesars, paltry copies.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love III i: Mayhap I may steer into your harbour. How say you, mistress?
at harbour (of hope), n.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love IV i: Ah, you’ve hit it, sir. That’s the matter with him, sir.
at hit it, v.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love III i: Hoity toity, what have I to do with his dreams or his divination?
at hoity-toity!, excl.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love V i: She’s mad for a husband, and he’s horn mad, I think, or they’d ne’er make a match together.
at horn, n.2
[UK] Congreve Love for Love III i: I mean to toss a can, and remember my sweetheart afore I turn in.
at turn in, v.1
[UK] ‘Soldier and a Sailor’ in Congreve Love for Love III xv: The Tinker ... with Mettle, Said he could mend her Kettle, And stop up ev’ry Leak.
at kettle, n.1
[UK] Congreve Love for Love II i: Marry, Heaven defend – I at midnight practices!
at marry!, excl.
[UK] Congreve Love for Love II i: Ouns, whose son are you? How were you engendered, muckworm?
at muck-worm, n.
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