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Sir Harry Wildair choose

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[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair II i: Here, Aukwardness, go take the Booby’s message.
at booby, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair IV ii: ’Tis a weak-headed Coxcomb! two or three Bumpers did his Business.
at do someone’s business (v.) under business, n.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair I i: Where d’ye think I found him? [...] Why, in the middle of a Monastry among a hundred and fifty Nuns, playing at Hot-cockles.
at play at hot cockles (v.) under cockles, n.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair II i: Drink like a Fish, and swear like a Devil.
at drink like a fish (v.) under drink, v.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair IV ii: Egad I should think so too.
at egad!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair II i: His Wife! Gad so!
at gadso! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair III ii: Oh! hang it.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair V iii: I rather fancy that the rattle-headed Fellow her Husband, has broken the poor Lady’s heart.
at rattle-head, n.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair IV ii: The wine was humming strong.
at humming, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair IV ii: The Dog was soon gone, knock’d under presently.
at knock under, v.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair I i: They fell to Loggerheads about their Play-things.
at get/go/come to loggerheads (v.) under loggerhead, n.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair IV ii: Sad Loggerheads, to mistake a Door in James Street for a House in Covent Garden.
at loggerhead, n.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair III ii: Why, you Dog, you ought to pimp for me; you should keep a Pack of Wenches o’pupose to hunt down Matrimony.
at pimp, v.
[UK] Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair III ii: wild: There is a Repose, I see, in the next room. [Aside. lure: Unnatural stuff].
at stuff, n.
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