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[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple III v: clinch.: The note! – what note? stand.: The letter, blockhead!
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple III ii: There, up comes her bravo; the Italian grows saucy, and I give him an English douse of the face.
at bravo, n.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple III ii: He whips out his stiletto, and I whips out my bull-dog.
at bulldog, n.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple V i: I have toasted your Ladyship fifteen bumpers successively.
at bumper, n.2
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple II iv: Egad so! cod so!
at cod, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple IV ii: Murdered my brother! O crimini!
at criminy!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple II iii: He, – is the rarest fool in nature, – the devil he is!
at devil, the, phr.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple III ii: There, up comes her bravo; the Italian grows saucy, and I give him an English douse of the face.
at douse, n.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple II iv: Ecod, I make a very handsome woman, ecod, I do!
at ecod!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple Prologue: Your elbow-shaking fool, that lives by’s wits.
at elbow-shaker (n.) under elbow, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple I i: Faugh! the nauseous fellow!
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple IV i: O gemini! my Jubilee pistols!
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple V iii: You might have had me once: but now, madam, if you should chance fall to eating chalk, or gnawing the sheets, ’tis none of my fault.
at have, v.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple II ii: I offer’d her fifty guineas, and she was in her airs presently, and flew away in a huff.
at huff, n.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple III ii: He whips out his stiletto, and I whips out my bull-dog.
at whip out, v.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple V iii: Now, madam, I’m a wit: I can rake now.
at rake, v.1
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple II v: I am very short... at present.
at short, adj.1
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple I i: I there had a Dutch whore for five stivers.
at stiver, n.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple Epilogue: The tearing spark [...] Breaks th’ drawer’s head, kicks her, and murders Bays.
at tearing, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Constant Couple II ii: Zoons! I cannot speak to her.
at zounds!, excl.
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