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Olive of Minerva choose

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[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 164: Should she smell of a back-house, she was your most toothsome confection.
at backhouse (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 162: A smirk is often a deeper gash in the flesh than the blade of a bodkin.
at bodkin, n.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 102: How is it a man of ninety-two [...] is spiteful, salacious, and ever ready to cuckold a clodpole miscalled a husband.
at clodpoll, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 44: That’s just a cock-brained fribble.
at cock-brain (n.) under cock, n.3
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 143: How is it possible for a dowd to conycatch a seer simply because she has a cranny between her legs?
at conycatch, v.
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 143: How is it possible for a dowd to conycatch a seer simply because she has a cranny between her legs?
at cranny, n.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 144: Your dog-faced truisms.
at dogface (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 119: Imagine a gawk like Abel with a light-heeled jill who’s looking for easy gingerbread.
at gingerbread, n.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 73: By the ballocks of Hercules, his countenance resembles his gullygut haunches.
at gully-gut (n.) under gully, n.2
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 119: Imagine a gawk like Abel with a light-heeled jill who’s looking for easy gingerbread.
at light-heeled (adj.) under light heels, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 84: He’s sick of the mulligrubs.
at mulligrubs, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 113: If the will is feeble one is a noddle.
at noddle, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 79: Your ecstasy has excited your armpits; they’re rammish.
at rammish (adj.) under ram, n.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 162: Perhaps I’ve had some clandestine need of a shack like you.
at shack, n.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 102: I met a she at the hedge tavern.
at she, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 43: Sure I was a skirt-chaser, a fleshy josher.
at skirt-chaser (n.) under skirt, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 145: There is no sporting-house vast enough to contain your Academe of harlots.
at sporting house (n.) under sporting, adj.
[US] E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 167: I laugh at your scrubby triumphs [...] and your infantine mischief with weather-headed slovens.
at weatherheaded, adj.
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