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[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased II iii: No lesse sport serve ye, Then the Heire to a Dukedom? play at push-pin there Sir?
at play at push-pin (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased IV iii: My valiant boy; do not look so fiercely on me, Thou wilt fright me with thy face; come busse againe Chick, Smile in my face you mad thing.
at chick, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased I ii: isabella: ’Twill stir a Saint, and I am but a woman, And by that tenure may— lopez: By no meanes Chicken, You know I love ye.
at chicken, n.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased II vi: Pay him o’th pate, clout him for all his curtesies.
at clout, v.1
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III iv: What a Devill is this? ty’d to her finger too? A string, a damned string to give intelligence?
at what the devil...?, phr.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III iv: Dog, I shall catch ye, With all your cunning Sir.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased II vi: Be not long a fumbling, When danger shall appear, I’ll give the ‘larme’.
at fumble, v.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased II vi: The hobnaile thy husband’s as fitly out o’ th way now.
at hobnail, n.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III ii: What can he do, he cannot suck an egg off But his back’s loose ith’ hilts.
at loose in the hilt(s) (adj.) under loose, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III ii: I have a pack of wry-mouth’d mackrell Ladies.
at mackerel, n.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III iv: Downe o’ your marrow-bones.
at marrowbones, n.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III iv: And once I would have sworn I had taken her napping.
at catch someone napping (v.) under napping, n.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased II vi: There is no pittying of ye, od’s precious, Mistris.
at ods precious! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III iv: Why, every Boy ith’ Towne will pisse upon thee.
at piss on, v.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III iv: ’Twere better far you had lost your paire of pibbles [sic], Then she the least adornment of that sweetnesse.
at pebble, n.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased I ii: You gave it me in water [...] it was so hearty I shall turne pissing Conduit shortly.
at pissing, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased III ii: Pox take ye foole.
at pox take —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased IV iii: I shall pump ye anon Sir.
at pump, v.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased I i: ’Tis true she is a right good Princes, and a just one.
at right, adv.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased IV iii: My valiant boy; do not look so fiercely on me, Thou wilt fright me with thy face; come busse againe Chick, Smile in my face you mad thing.
at thing, n.
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased II vi: penurio: He loves not any thing but what is traffique: I have heard him sweare he would sell ye to the grand Signior. isabella: The Turk. penurio: The very Turke, and how they would use ye —.
at turk, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Women Pleased II vi: I have strength, and I can strain ye sirrah, And vault into my seat as nimbly, little one, As any of your smooth-chinn’d boys in Florence I must needs commit a little folly with ye, I’ll not be long, a brideling cast, and away wench.
at vault, v.
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