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Beggar’s Opera II xiii: I’m bubbled [...] Bambouzled, and bit!at bamboozle, v.
Beggar’s Opera II xiii: I’m bubbled [...] Bambouzled, and bit! Beggar’s Opera II xiii: I’m bubbled [...] Bambouzled, and bit!at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
Beggar’s Opera II v: Women are Decoy Ducks; who can trust them! Beasts, Jades [...] Whores!at beast, n.
Beggar’s Opera II iii: What a Fool is a fond Wench! Polly is most confoundedly bit. [Ibid.] II xiii: I’m bubbled [...] Bambouzled, and bit!at bit, adj.
Beggar’s Opera III ii: The Gamesters united in Friendship are found [...] They bite their Companions, and prey on their Friends.at bite, v.
Beggar’s Opera II i: Matt of the Mint, Ben Budge, and the rest of the Gang.at budge, n.1
Beggar’s Opera I iv: Wife, rip out the Coronets and Marks of these dozen of Cambric Handkerchiefs, for I can dispose of them this Afternoon to a Chap in the City.at chap, n.
Beggar’s Opera III xi: Then farewell, my Love – Dear Charmers, adieu.at charmer, n.
Beggar’s Opera III i: Did he tip handsomely? – How much did he come down with?at come down with (v.) under come down, v.1
Beggar’s Opera III iv: There will be deep Play to-night at , thus deep one, a cunning person or one who believes they areMarybone, and consequently Money may be pick’d up upon the Road.at deep, adj.
Beggar’s Opera II iv: If any Woman hath more Art than another, to be sure ’tis Jenny Diver [...] she can pick his Pocket as cooly, as if Money were her only Pleasure.at diver, n.
Beggar’s Opera III iii: Thus I stand like the Turk, with his doxies around, From all sides their glances his passion confound .at doxy, n.
Beggar’s Opera II xiii: Be pacified, my dear Lucy – This is all a Fetch of Polly’s, to make me desperate with you in case I get off.at fetch, n.1
Beggar’s Opera I viii: Give her another Glass, Sir; my Mama drinks double the Quantity whenever she is out of Order. This, you see, fetches her.at fetch, v.1
Beggar’s Opera I vi: filch: I ply’d at the Opera, Madam; and considering ’twas neither dark nor rainy [...] made a tolerable hand on’t. These seven Handkerchiefs, Madam.at filch, n.
Beggar’s Opera II iv: Betty Doxy! Come hither, Hussy. Do you drink as hard as ever? You had better stick to good wholesome Beer; for in troth, Betty Strong-Waters will in time ruin your Constitution.at hard, adv.
Beggar’s Opera III iii: Why, Boy, thou lookest as if thou wert half starv’d; like a shotten Herring.at shotten herring, n.
Beggar’s Opera II iv: Pray, Madam, were you ever in keeping? [Ibid.] III v: To Mrs. Diana Trapes, the Tally-Woman and she will make a good Hand on’t in Shoes and Slippers, to trick out young Ladies, upon their going into Keeping.at in keeping under keeping, n.
Beggar’s Opera I i: Betty hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year that any five of the Gang. [Ibid.] III iii: lockit: Boy, can’st thou tell me where thy Master is to be found? filch: At his Lock, Sir, at the Crooked Billet.at lock, n.1
Beggar’s Opera III iv: Of all Mechanics, of all servile Handycrafts-men, a Gamester is the vilest.at mechanic, n.
Beggar’s Opera I i: Black Moll hath sent word her Tryal comes on in the Afternoon.at moll, n.
Beggar’s Opera II iv: She riveted a Linnen-draper’s Eye so fast upon her, that he was nick’d of three Pieces of Cambric before he could look off.at nick, v.1
Beggar’s Opera I x: ’Twas only Niming Ned. [Ibid.] II x: I expect a Gentleman about this Snuff-box that Filch nimm’d two Nights ago in the Park.at nim, v.
Beggar’s Opera III iii: Truly, if that great Man should tip off, ’twould be an irreparable Loss.at tip off, v.1
Beggar’s Opera II i: I could not save him from those fleaing Rascals the Surgeons; and now, poor Man, he is among the Otamys at Surgeon’s Hall.at otamy, n.
Beggar’s Opera I x: Secure what he hath got, have him peache’d the next Sessions, and then at once you are made a rich Widow.at peach, v.
Beggar’s Opera II iv: With Industry, one may still have a little Picking.at pick, v.1
Beggar’s Opera I vi: I had a fair tug at a charming Gold Watch. Pox take the Taylors for making the Fobs so deep and narrow.at pox take —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
Beggar’s Opera III ix: By pouring Strong-Waters down my Throat, she thinks to pump some Secrets out of me.at pump, v.
Beggar’s Opera III i: Mistress Puss! – Out of my Sight, wanton Strumpet!at puss, n.1
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