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[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 75: Merry as Greeks, and drunk as Lords.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 78: Proffer’d Love’s not worth a Cow-turd.
at not worth a turd, phr.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 26: What could Æneas do to thee? Who car’st a Fart for no-body.
at not care a fart, v.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 9: Then (at his Ease) Arsing about.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 87: This Baggage that still took a pride to / Slander and backbite poor Queen Dido.
at baggage, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 50: With that to shaking Hands they fall [...] No Bandog could have shak’d ’em better.
at bandog, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 50: Thou’st been so bang’d about the Stoops.
at bang, v.1
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 76: Now when, with raking up the Fire / Each one departs for Bedfordshire, / And pillows all securely snort on.
at Bedfordshire, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 29: Lay thinking now his Guts grew limber, / How they might get more Belly-Timber.
at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 16: This Blade, when first he heard the Sea ring, / Was pickling Pilchards.
at blade, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 77: Than blind Cheeks blinder, / She threw all Care and Shame behind her.
at blind cheeks (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 12: Quoth he, Blind Harpers, have among ye, / ’Tis ten to one but I bedung ye.
at blind harper (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 112: Thou know’st the Temper of the Block-head.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 61: Here, Sirs (quoth he) I drink this Brimmer.
at brimmer, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 126: Thou hast of Hope not one Spark left, / Th’ast brought thy Hogs to a fair Market.
at bring one’s hogs to a fair market (v.) under bring, v.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 95: In building for the Queen a Jakes, / But never think’st [...] What will become of thine own Business.
at business, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 44: A hardish Kind of Name it was, / Where once your what shall’s call’ums (rot em, / It makes me mad I have forgot ’em) / Liv’d a great while.
at what-shall-call-um, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 34: And I Æneas fam’d in Fight; / But much more for a Carpet-Knight.
at carpet knight, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 107: Thou lying Coney-catching Knave.
at cony-catching, adj.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 51: For know that she / Still wash’d her Hands in Chamber-lee.
at chamber lye, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 62: Faggot-sticks flew in Folks Chops.
at chops, n.1
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 30: And let herself be chuck’d / [...] / By Mars, and many a one beside.
at chuck, v.1
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 57: Then must thou play thy pretty Treasons, / Lick her Lips, Flatter her, and Cog. [Ibid.] 59: Cupid, that little cogging Brat.
at cog, v.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 59: There as she sat upon her Crupper, / She bad her Folks to bring in Supper.
at crupper, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 7: The lustiest Carles thereabouts. Rich Cuffs and very sturdy Louts.
at cuff, n.1
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 19: Away they cut as swift as Swallows. [Ibid.] Bk IV 90: Put on the Wings that used to bear ye, / And cut away to Carthage quickly.
at cut away (v.) under cut, v.2
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 72: That she, Now car’d no more for her good Name, / Than any common Trading Dame.
at trading dame, n.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 141: Till at the last in mortal Trance / She did conclude the dismal dance.
at dance, n.1
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 13: When Æol pluck’d th Plug / from the Muzzle of his double Jug, / The Winds burst forth.
at double jugg(s) (n.) under double, adj.
[UK] C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 23: We shall win Houses, Lands, and Doxies.
at doxy, n.
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