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The Maid of Bath Married choose

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[UK] Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: Mr. Button has the spirit of a taylor [...] and you know, nine of them make a man.
at ninth part of a man, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 228: I shall be most confoundedly bit.
at bit, adj.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath I iv: She’s a tight bit of stuff.
at bit of stuff, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 221: Folks that are idle, / May live to bite the bridle.
at bite (on) the bridle (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: One may cut and cabbage, and cut again, without pinching our customers, or clipping them into short coats.
at cabbage, v.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 203: Major Rackett, in a chay and four.
at chay, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 239: Come hither, my chicken.
at chicken, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath Married I i: With all his flummery of love, Cod’s wrath.
at cod, n.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 208: A few feeble fellows that dropt off with the leaves in October.
at drop off, v.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 200: Change-Alley bankrupts waddle out lame ducks!
at lame duck, n.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath I iv: Your rival is a fusty, foggy, lumbering log.
at foggy, adj.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 205: Gad take me, as facetious and free as if I were their father.
at gad, n.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 209: He is sixty, at least: what a filthy old goat!
at goat, n.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 225: Only a bit broke off the coral when I was cutting my grinders.
at grinder, n.1
[UK] Cooke in Foote Maid of Bath Married A2: Reducing the Maid of Bath to the Dilemma of either chusing a Husband out of an old Hunks or Grub, a Debauchee [...] and a mechanical Prig.
at grub, n.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 205: The share he had in your Honour’s intrigue [...] made this city too hot for poor Ned.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: By an act of grace at the day of judgement, out of a spunging-house, into a blacker hole than any in Newgate.
at sponging-house, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 209: That [...] money-loving, water-drinking, mirth-marring, amorous old hunks.
at hunks, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: Hush, here’s hush money for you, to stop his mouth.
at hush money, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 207: I will send for Luke Latitat and Codicil, and make a handsome bequest to the hospital.
at latitat, n.
[UK] Cooke in Foote Maid of Bath Married A2: Reducing the Maid of Bath to the Dilemma of either chusing a Husband out of an old Hunks or Grub, a Debauchee [...] and a mechanical Prig.
at mechanic, adj.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 219: A little play-actor, who gets applauded or hiss’d just e’en as the mobility wills.
at mobility, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath Works (1799) II 216: Won’t a single sore throat destroy the boasted power of your pipe?
at pipe, n.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: It will be in the piss-pot presently.
at pisspot, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 205: Where is this rakehelly rantipole?
at rantipole, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 200: The gaming fools are doves, the knaves are rooks.
at rook, n.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 212: Ah, rot your hypocritical face!
at rot!, excl.1
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath I iv: Here be Mynheer Sour-crout and Mounseer da Jarsey a come.
at sauerkraut, n.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: Those who bear up the train [...] Who walk with their nose in a sh-tt-n Cub’s a---.
at shitten, adj.
[UK] Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 239: Don’t think you can impose upon a cunning old sportsman like me.
at sportsman, n.
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