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[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II iii: If she be not as kind as fair, / But peevish and unhandy, / Leave her, she’s only worth the care / Of some spruce Jack-a-dandy.
at jack-a-dandy, n.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II iii: I believe he’s gone down to receive money; ’Twere an excellent design to bubble him.
at bubble, v.1
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub V iv: Do not tremble, Chuck; I love thy profession too well to harm thee.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub Epilogue: If y’are displeas’d w’are all cross-bit to day, And he has wheadl’d us that writ the Play.
at crossbite, v.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub I iii: I’ve lodg’d a Deer shall make amends for all.
at deer, n.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II ii: I do not understand Dice: I understand good Pasture and drink --- Hang the Devil’s bones.
at devil’s bones (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub V iv: How was I bewitch’d to trust such a villain! Oh Rogue, Dog, Coward, Palmer!
at dog, n.2
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub IV iii: The Wine makes the Rogue witty; he over-acts the Part I gave him; [...] I will keep Him thus elevated till he has married Grace.
at elevated, adj.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub III iv: Jan foutre de Lacque; me vil have de Vip And de Belle vor your breeck, Rogue.
at jean foutre, n.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub III ii: I’ll fetch thee again, or conjure the whole Garden up.
at Garden, the, n.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub I ii: Hang Reputation amongst a company of Rascals.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II iii: What say you, shall we have her?
at have, v.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub III iv: Sir, in a word, he was Jack-pudding to a Mountebank, And turn’d off for want of wit.
at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub I ii: A Midwife was never knock’d up With more fury.
at knock up, v.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub IV iii: Do you take me for a Night-walker, Sir?
at night walker, n.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub I iii: A pox confound all Ordinaries.
at pox!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II iii: I’le not abate you an ace. ’Slid, y’are not So honest as I took you for.
at ’slid!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II iii: Make much of e’ry buxome Girl, / Which needs but little Courting; / Her value is above the pearl, / That takes delight in sporting.
at sport, v.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II iii: Upon my word a very fair square play.
at square, adj.
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II iii: How neatly I cou’d Top upon him!
at top, v.2
[UK] Etherege Love In A Tub II iii: Two of a sort; two Cinques, two Tre’s.
at tray, n.1
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