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[UK] J. Gay Polly III v: Furies! A manifest cog! I won’t be bubbled, Sir.
at cog, n.1
[UK] J. Gay Polly III v: Is Morano still with his doxy?
at doxy, n.
[UK] J. Gay Polly II iv: While a man is grappling with these gill-flirts, pardon the expression, Captain, he runs his reason a-ground.
at gill-flirt, n.
[UK] J. Gay Polly I ix: When kings by their huffing / Have blown up a squabble.
at huff, v.
[UK] J. Gay Polly III v: But yet I don’t see, Brother Hacker, why we should be commanded by a Neger.
at nigger, n.1
[UK] J. Gay Polly I ii: She is in most charming rigging.
at rigging, n.1
[UK] J. Gay Polly III v: D’you take me for a sharper, Sir?
at sharper, n.
[UK] J. Gay Polly II viii: Let a gibbet be set up, and swing him off.
at swing, v.
[UK] J. Gay Polly I v: Bless my eye-sight what do I see? [...] Miss Polly Peachum! mercy upon me! Child, what brought you on this side of the water?
at water, the, n.
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