1613–16 Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen II ii: Do but put / A feskue in her fist, and you shall see her / Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench.at fescue, n.
1841 W.G. Simms Kinsmen 57: He was a little, dried up, withered atomy,—a jaundiced ‘sand-lapper’ or ‘clay-eater’ from the Wassamasaw country .at clay-eater (n.) under clay, n.
1841 W.G. Simms Kinsmen 98: I wouldn’t give a continental copper for the safety of your skin, colonel .at continental, adj.
1841 W.G. Simms Kinsmen ii 27: The dull, drowsy, beef-eyed Dutchmen,... the Hessian boobies.at Dutchman, n.