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[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
at lay someone trigging (v.) under lay, v.1
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3 edn) [as cit. 1785, 1788].
at overseer of the (new) pavement, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1788].
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at bear a hand, v.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at blow with a French faggot-stick, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at indorse with a cudgel, v.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at like a gravedigger under like a..., phr.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at rocked in a stone kitchen, phr.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1785].
at break a leg, v.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at like a rope-dancer’s pole (with) lead at both ends under like a..., phr.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at simper like a frumety-kettle, v.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at fed with a fire-shovel, phr.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at jack in a box, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at christened by a baker, adj.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at like a winter’s day – short and dirty under like a..., phr.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1785].
at all a-mort, adj.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at wry mouth and a pissen pair of breeches, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at abram, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at abram-man, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Accommodate, or Accommodation In the Sporting World it is to part a BET, or to let a person go halves (that is to accommodate him) in a bet that is likely to come off successful.
at accommodate, v.2
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at within ambs-ace of under ambs-ace, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at cap acquaintance, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1785].
at Jack Adams, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at addle-plot, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at admiral of the narrow seas (n.) under admiral of..., n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at after-clap, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at would I had Kemp’s shoes to throw after you, phr.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at aground, adj.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at Drury Lane ague, n.
[UK] Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
at bill on the pump at Aldgate, n.
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