1771 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.
1771 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.
1771 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
1771 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
1771 Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 200: Change-Alley bankrupts waddle out lame ducks!at lame duck, n.1
1771 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
1771 Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 209: He is sixty, at least: what a filthy old goat!at goat, n.1
1771 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
1771 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
1771 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.
1771 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.
1771 Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 209: That [...] money-loving, water-drinking, mirth-marring, amorous old hunks.at hunks, n.
1771 Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: Hush, here’s hush money for you, to stop his mouth.at hush money, n.
1771 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.
1771 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.
1771 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.
1771 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
1771 Foote Maid of Bath in Works (1799) II 200: The gaming fools are doves, the knaves are rooks.at rook, n.1
1771 Foote Maid of Bath I iv: Here be Mynheer Sour-crout and Mounseer da Jarsey a come.at sauerkraut, n.
1771 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.
1771 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.