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[UK] Foote Cozeners (1778) 6: I overheard Luke Lockup, the turnkey.
at lockup, n.
[UK] Foote Taste act 1: She has a Sister at Hampton-Court..she had but one Eye indeed, but that was a Piercer [...] we were call'd the gimlet-ey’d Family.
at gimlet-eyed, adj.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 45: If you are in your airs again, I may as well decamp.
at in one’s airs (adj.) under air, n.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 43: Bless me! Sir! you here!
at bless me! (excl.) under bless, v.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 31: Not a Buck, nor a Blood, through the whole English nation / But his roughness she’ll soften.
at blood, n.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 44: She’s a bloody fine girl.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 42: mr subtle: How the baggage leer’d! mrs subtle: And the booby gap’d.
at booby, n.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 36: Another came up to second time, but I let drive at the monk, made the soup-maigre rumble in his bread-basket, and laid him sprawling.
at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 4: Dick Daylight and Bob Breadbasket, the bruisers.
at bruiser, n.
[UK] Foote Taste in Works (1799) I 14: I am puzzled to know which is thine, chuck.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 35: Has Count Cog sent you your share out of Mr Puntwell’s losings?
at cog, v.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 34: So, the old doings, Roger; what time did your master come home?
at doings, n.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 31: Egad I’ve a mind to set up some trade.
at egad!, excl.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 42: The fish [i.e. a rich young fool] is hook’d].
at fish, n.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 40: Gadso! well, my dear, I must run.
at gadso! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] Foote Taste in Works (1799) I 13: Pr’ythee, sweet honey, let the child alone.
at honey, n.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 37: Hold your jaw.
at hold one’s jaw (v.) under jaw, n.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 37: Mobb’d! I should be glad to see that — No! they han’t spirit enough to mob here.
at mob, v.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 35: How do’st, old buck, hey? Give’s thy paw!
at paw, n.
[UK] Foote Taste in Works (1799) I 21: How I adore the simplicity of the antients! How unlike the present priggish, prick-eared puppets!
at priggish (adj.) under prig, n.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 34: Classic: What time did your master come home? Roger: Between five and six, pummell’d to a jelly.
at pummeled, adj.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 35: Has Count Cog sent you your share out of Mr Puntwell’s losings?
at punt, v.1
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 36: The men are all puppies, mincing and dancing.
at puppy, n.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 35: How the powder flew about, and the Monsieurs scour’d.
at scour, v.2
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 34: A smoaky fellow this Classic.
at smoky, adj.1
[UK] Foote Taste in Works (1799) I 13: Odds me! he’s a thumper. You see [...] I bred no starvelings.
at thumper, n.
[UK] Foote Taste in Works (1799) I 9: Dear Sir, you are so warm, we shall be blown.
at warm, adj.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 35: Wounds! how the powder flew about, and the Monsieurs scour’d.
at wounds!, excl.
[UK] Foote Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 34: Fleece the younker!
at younker, n.
[UK] Foote Taste in Works (1799) I 20: Zooks it cost me a hundred guineas.
at zooks!, excl.
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