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[UK] Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe in Gent’s Mag. (1844) Sept. 233/2: Many a prety kusse Had I of his swete musse .
at mush, n.2
[UK] Gent’s Mag. Sept. 400/1: One Nap, dear Girls is all I beg. / — A Nap! Su, give him some cold Pig. / Come, come, says John, don’t play the fool.
at cold pig (n.) under cold, adj.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. 2 (Jan.) 790: An Epistle from Sir John Meretrix to Diana, Goddess of Chastity, Directress of the Midnight Academy at Vaux-Hall.
at academy, n.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. II June 790: [Able] to instruct both Sexes in good Letters, good Manners, Writing, Needle-Work, and a nameless Et cetera.
at et-caetera, n.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. No. 3 May 263: I’ll quit that frail empire, which once I held dear, And let puny states your gross Netherlands share.
at Netherlands, n.
[UK] ‘Downfall of Mother Gin’ in Gent’s Mag. 6 311: [note] Faggots are Fellows, for whom pay is received by the Captains, and who appear only occasionally at muster.
at faggot, n.2
[UK] Gentleman’s Mag. Feb. 84/1: We have the pleasure to inform the married gentlemen, particularly those who, in their buckish days, have been a little so-so-ish, and are too apt to look jaunduced upon their ladies, that stiffened stays are again coming into fashion.
at buckish (adj.) under buck, n.1
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. Feb. 103/2: The rest of the evening is past in chit-chat, In admiring the Mag, a song, and all that.
at mag, n.4
[UK] ‘Exmoor Courtship’ in Gentleman’s Mag. June 298/1: Vurst ha geed ma a whisterpoop under tha year [Ibid.] 299/2: Add! chell gi’ en zutch a zwop! — chell gi ’en a whapper, and a wherret and a whisterpoop too.
at whister-clister, n.
[UK] ‘An Exmoor Courtship’ in Gent.’s Mag. June n.p.: Es wont ha’ my Tetties a grabbed zo [R].
at titty, n.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. xxv 65: The mohocks and Hell-Fire-Club, the heroes of the last generation [F&H].
at Mohock, n.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. XXV 153: His powerful deep rate, by which all the horses that ran against him were no-where .
at nowhere, adj.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. XXVI. 37: As bees for honey range from flow’r to flow’r, / From house to house I see Mundungus scow’r!
at scour, v.2
[UK] Gent. Mag. 29 576/2: The Soleil Royal, which under cover of the night had anchored among us, cut and run ashore [...] I made the Essex’s signal to slip and pursue her.
at cut and run, v.
[UK] in Gent’s Mag. Jan. 40/1: I gave him a few of my lower-deck pills, and sent him running like a lusty fellow, .
at pill, n.
[UK] ‘Western Eclogue’ in Gent.’s Mag. 287: We nothing smoaks but oak leaves and cue-terd.
at cow-turd (n.) under cow, n.1
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. 86/2: Here’s cream — damn’d fine — immense — upon my word!
at immense, adj.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. 79: A young batchellor would be far from being detrimented by an out of that kind .
at out, n.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. Sept. 461/2: Mrs. Jewel [...] was robbed [...] in the middle of the day by some Irish travellers .
at traveller, n.
[UK] Gentleman’s Mag. Apr. 228/2: This is a doctrine much inculcated by somebody ; bus, maugre his most earnest endeavours, it has not yet taken sufficient root in this country; nor do I suppose, that you, Mr. Anybody, are desirous that it ever should.
at Mr Anybody (n.) under Mr, n.
[UK] Gentleman’s Mag. Nov. 593/1: Jenny [...] was a Covent-garden-bred wench, who had lived at a jelly-house.
at jelly house (n.) under jelly, n.1
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. in Curious Articles from Gent.’s Mag. I 143: A cute man, is an abbreviation of acute [...] and signifies a person that is sharp, clever, neat, or to use a more modern term, jemmy.
at jemmy, adj.1
[UK] Gentleman’s Mag. Jan. 34/2: Ill-match’d couples are more than once said to lead a cat and dog life.
at cat and dog life (n.) under cat, n.1
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. 560: I shall not mention the additions that have been made by way of illustration to several of the terms in this list, although taken together, they may be considered as separate phrases; among these are — 1 As drunk as a Devil, 2 As drunk as a Piper, [...] 5 As drunk as a Lord, 6 As fuddled as an Ape, 7 As merry as a Grigg, 8 As happy as a King.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. 560: As drunk as an Owl.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. 559: To express the condition of an Honest Fellow, and no Flincher, under the Effects of good Fellowship, it is said that he is [...] In his altitudes.
at in one’s altitudes (adj.) under altitudes, n.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. 560: As drunk as David’s Sow.
at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. 560/1: To express the condition of an Honest Fellow [...] under the Effects of good Fellowship, [...] It is also said that he has [...] 56: Got a crumb in his beard.
at have a crumb in one’s beard (v.) under beard, n.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. Dec. 559/2: To express the condition of an Honest Fellow [...] under the Effects of good Fellowship, it is said that he is [...] 28. In his beer .
at in one’s beer (adj.) under beer, n.
[UK] Gent.’s Mag. Dec. 559/2: To express the condition of an Honest Fellow [...] under the Effects of good Fellowship, it is said that he is [...] 39. Bosky .
at bosky, adj.
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