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The Man of Mode choose

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[UK] Etherege Man of Mode II i: Nay, a-dod, I like her ne’er the worse.
at adod!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: Go, call in that overgrown jade with the flasket of guts before her.
at basket, n.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: dor.: Give him half a Crown. med.: Not without he will promise to be bloody Drunk.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode III i: What think you of playing it on booty? [...] Pretend to be in love with one another.
at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: Three quarts of canary is her business.
at canary, n.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode III iii: third man: What spruce prig is that? first man: A caravan lately come from Paris.
at caravan, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode II i: Why the very cock-fool of all those fools, Sir Fopling Flutter.
at cock, adj.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode III iii: Dorimant’s convenient, Madam Lovett.
at convenient, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode V ii: No one woman is worth the loss of a cut in a caper.
at cut a caper (upon nothing) (v.) under cut, v.3
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode II i: Dissembler, damned dissembler!
at damned, adj.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode IV i: So, so, so! a smart bout, a very fine bout a Dod!
at dod, n.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: Dogs! Will they ever lie snoring a-bed till noon?
at dog, n.2
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode IV i: Call a Footman! Pert! quickly, I will have him dogg’d.
at dog, v.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: How now double tripe, what news do you bring?
at double tripe, n.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode V i: I am amazed to find him here! How has he the face to come near you?
at face, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode II 1 72: An idle Town Flurt, with a painted Face.
at flirt, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: Gad, I was up before four o’clock this morning.
at gad!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode II ii: Go on, be the Game-Mistress o’ the Town, and enter all our young Fops, as fast as they come from Travel.
at game, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode III iii: I have been used to deep play, but I can make one at small game, when I like my gamester well.
at gamester, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: Go, call in that overgrown jade with the flasket of guts before her.
at gut, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode II i: And dare you own it to my face? Hell and furies!
at hell!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: Tax her with the next fop that comes into my head, and in a huff march away.
at huff, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode III i: Jesu! Madam, what will your mother think is become of you?
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: dorimant: The nasty refuse of your shop. orange-woman: You need not make mouths at it, I assure you ’tis all culled ware.
at make mouths (at) (v.) under mouth, n.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode II i: Out a pise o’their breeches, they are keeping fools enough for such flaunting baggages.
at piss!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode III iii: What spruce prig is that?
at prig, n.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode V i: You have an indifferent stock of reputation left. Lose it all like a frank gamester on the square, ’twill then be time enough to turn rook and cheat it up again on a good substantial bubble.
at rook, n.1
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode II i: An idle town flirt with a painted face, a rotten reputation, and a crazy fortune.
at rotten, adj.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode I i: ’Zbud, you have no reason to talk.
at ’sblood!, excl.
[UK] Etherege Man of Mode III iii: Peace, they smoke.
at smoke, v.1
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