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[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 33: And I will pledge Tom Tosspot, till I be drunk as a mouse-a.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 25: Marry, here is a pot of noppy good ale.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 12: Blood, wounds, and nails! it will make a man mad.
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 6: Dost thou not remember, since thou didst bruise me behind?
at behind, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like (1874) 6: This was when my dame called thee bottle-nosed knave.
at bottlenosed, adj.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 12: I was so afraid, I was like to bestench the place! My buttocks made buttons of the new fashion.
at one’s arse makes buttons (v.) under button, n.1
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like in Dodsley III (1874) 326: I promised of late to come unto a company, / Which at Hob Filcher’s for me do remain.
at filcher, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 40: Lo, here is gear that will make their necks for to crack.
at gear, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 12: Gog’s heart and his guts, is not this too bad?
at gog, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 51: With them it is much worse, for the halter shall them bow.
at halter, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 7: For a very skipjack is prouder, I swear by the mass.
at skip-jack, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 11: To thee shall come hobbling Jone.
at joan, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 14: Yonder cometh Ralph Roister [...] for thee he is so fit a mate, / As Tom and Tib for Kit and Kate.
at kate, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 11: Well, godfather, no more words but mum!
at mum!, excl.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 11: Well, godfather, no more words but mum!
at mum, n.1
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 51: By the mass, I must go piss.
at piss, v.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 51: I would I had a pot, for now I am so hot.
at pot, n.1
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 15: I know that roisters and tosspots come of one kind [...] And roisters and ruffians do sober company eschew.
at roister, n.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 41: I fear that, when that this gear shall come to scanning, The land to the which we did wholly trust: Shall be gone from us.
at scan, v.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 14: Yonder cometh Ralph Roister [...] for thee he is so fit a mate, / As Tom and Tib for Kit and Kate.
at tib, n.1
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 6: If my dame and thou hast been tumbling by the ears, As ofttimes you do, like a couple of great bears.
at tumble, v.1
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 30: This piece of land, whereto you inheritors are, Is called the land of the two-legged mare.
at two-legged mare (n.) under two, adj.
[UK] U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 18: Even Thomas-a-Waterings or Tyburn Hill To the falsest thief of you both, by my father’s will.
at Tyburn, n.
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