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[UK] Ford Fancies Act IV: Where but two lie in a bed, you must be Bodkin, bitch-baby must ye?
at bodkin, n.2
[UK] Ford Fancies III iii: Roguery, brokage and roguery, or call me bulchin.
at bulchin, n.
[UK] Ford Fancies Act IV: This gelded hobet a hoy is a corrupted Pander; the page a milke liverd Dildo; my Wife a Whore confest; and I myselfe a Cuckold arrant.
at dildo, n.
[UK] Ford Fancies III iii: [She] may do well enough for one [...] One! ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand; do beyond arithmetic.
at do, v.1
[UK] Ford Fancies I ii: Th’art a prickeard foyst, a cittern headed gew gaw, a knacke, a snipper-snapper.
at prick-eared, adj.
[UK] Ford Fancies V i: Lecherously goatish and an Eunuch?
at goatish (adj.) under goat, n.1
[UK] Ford Fancies Act IV: What a wise goose-cap hast thou shew’d thy self?
at goose-cap (n.) under goose, n.4
[UK] Ford Fancies Act IV: Rotten in thy maw, thy guts and garbage.
at maw, n.
[UK] Ford Fancies Act III: His tongue troules like a Mill-clack.
at mill-clapper (n.) under mill, n.1
[UK] Ford Fancies I ii: Indeed? Th’art worse, a drie shaver, a copper basand-suds-monger.
at -monger, sfx
[UK] Ford Fancies I ii: Yes crimpe, ’tis a gallant life to be an old Lord’s pimpewhiskin, but beware of the porter’s lodge for carrying tales out of the schoole.
at pimp whisk (n.) under pimp, n.
[UK] Ford Fancies Act III: The rarest fellow, Spadone, so full of gamballs, a talkes so humorously, does a not, so carelessly? oh rich!
at rich, adj.
[UK] Ford Fancies I ii: An old rotten Codled mungrell, parcell Bawde, parcell midwife, all the markes are quite out of her mouth, not a stumpe of a tooth left in her head.
at rotten, adj.
[UK] Ford Fancies Act III: Behold these two; this Madam and this shaver.
at shaver, n.1
[UK] Ford Fancies Act IV: I will never more tumble in sheets with thee, I will father no misbegotten of thine.
at tumble, v.1
[UK] Ford Fancies IV i: The young whelp is mad; I must slice the worm out of his breech.
at worm, n.
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