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[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer IV iii: There are several sorts of Toms! Tom o’ Lincoln, Tom-tit, Tom Tell-troth, Tom o’ Bedlam, and Tom Fool.
at Tom of Bedlam, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer V vi: Sir, if you haven’t had your bellyfull of these, the swords shall come in for a second course.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer IV i: Thou art a bloody impudent fellow.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: Not a brass farthing, sir.
at brass farthing (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer III i: I was born a gipsy, and bred among that crew [...] There I learned canting and lying.
at canting, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer III i: plume: Here, you chickens! rose: Who calls? plume: Come hither, pretty maid.
at chicken, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer I i: plume: Is the child a boy or a girl? kite: A chopping boy.
at chopping, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: You rascal! [...] I’ll trample you to death, you dog!
at dog, n.2
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: You are a justice of the peace, and you are a king, and I am a duke, and a rum duke, a’n’t I?
at duke, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: Flesh, I’s keep on my nab!
at flesh!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer V vi: How those bullets whistle! Suppose they had ben lodged in my gizzard now!
at gizzard, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer IV iii: Your mother has a hundred pound in hard money, lying [...] in the hands of a mercer.
at hard, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer V v: You have made a fine speech, good Captain Huffcap.
at huffcap, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer I i: If [...] any ’prentices have severe masters, any children have undutiful parents; if any servants have too little wages, or any husband too much wife, let them repair to the noble Serjeant Kite.
at Sergeant Kite, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II ii: I should have some rogue of a builder [...] to adorn some maggotty, new-fashioned bauble upon the Thames.
at maggoty, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: I’se keep on my nab.
at nab, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: ’Ounds, off with your hats!
at oons!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer I ii: In short, Melinda, I think a petticoat a mighty simple thing, and I am heartily tired of my sex.
at petticoat, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer V vii: His boy Jack was the most comical bastard – ha, ha, ha, ha! a pickled dog.
at pickled, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer I i: Come, honest lad, will you take share of a pot?
at pot, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer IV iii: Rat me, I knew a famous doctor in London of your name!
at rat me! (excl.) under rat, v.1
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: You are a justice of the peace, and you are a king, and I am a duke, and a rum duke, a’n’t I?
at rum duke (n.) under rum, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer III ii: silv.: You are an ignorant, pretending, impudent coxcomb. braz.: Ay, ay, a sad dog.
at sad dog (n.) under sad, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: You’re both young tight fellows, and the army is the place to make you men for ever.
at tight, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer III i: Look yonder, she’s a-coming this way: ’tis the prettiest, cleanest little tit!
at tit, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer IV iii: There are several sorts of Toms! Tom o’ Lincoln, Tom-tit, Tom Tell-troth, Tom o’ Bedlam, and Tom Fool.
at tommy tit, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer IV iii: There are several sorts of Toms! Tom o’ Lincoln, Tom-tit, Tom Tell-troth, Tom o’ Bedlam, and Tom Fool.
at tom tell-troth (n.) under tom, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer IV ii: There’s a great deal of address and good manners in robbing a lady; I am the most a gentleman that way that ever travelled the road.
at traveller, n.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer II iii: Wauns, I have a month’s mind to go with him!
at wounds!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Recruiting Officer V:3: You have made a fine speech, good Captain Huffcap ; but youhad better be quiet, l shall find a way to cool your courage.
at Captain Huff (n.) under captain, n.
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