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Citizen of the World II cxvi 219: I found Newgate as agreeable a place as ever I was in my life. I had my belly-full to eat and drink, and did no work .at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
Citizen of the World II cxvi 219: I found Newgate as agreeable a place as ever I was in my life. I had my belly-full to eat and drink, and did no work . ‘A Description of Various Clubs’ Coll. Works (1966) III 13: Blast me if I do.at blast, v.1
Citizen of the World II lxv 13: The champion Rock advises the world to beware of bog-trotting quacks.at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
Citizen of the World II cxvi 219: The justice himself met me: he called me a villain, and collaring me, desired I would give an account of myself.at collar, v.
‘A Description of Various Clubs’ in Coll. Works (1966) III 13: Dammee if I don’t.at damme!, excl.
‘A Description of Various Clubs’ Coll. Works (1966) III 12: The president vainly knocked down Mr. Leathersides for a song.at knock down, v.
Citizen of the World II cxvi 220: They belonged to a press-gang [...] I could give no account of myself (that was the thing that always hobbled me).at hobbled, adj.
Citizen of the World II lxxv 57: A travelling Hottentot himself would be silent .at Hottentot, n.
Citizen of the World I xxxviii 165: He loked all the time with such irresistable impudence, that [...] something in his face gave me as much pleasure as a pair-royal of naturals in my hand.at natural, n.
Citizen of the World I xxvi 109: They spunged up my money while it lasted, borrowed my coals and never paid for them, and cheated me when I played at cribbage.at sponge, v.
Citizen of the World II lxv 13: Rock is remarkably squab, his great rival Franks is as remarkably tall.at squabby, adj.
‘A Description of Various Clubs’ Coll. Works (1966) III 9: This succeeded a Welch dialogue, with the humours of Teague and Taffy.at Taffy, n.
Citizen of the World lxxvii n.p.: It is at once rich, tasty, and quite the thing [F&H].at thing, the, n.
‘A Description of Various Clubs’ in Coll. Works (1966) III 8: I might have heard Gee Ho Dobbin sung in a tip-top manner.at tip-top, adj.
‘A Reverie at the Boar’s-head-tavern, Eastcheap’ in Coll. Works (1966) III 100: She would pledge me a bumper.at bumper, n.2
‘Serious reflections on the life and death of the late Mr. TC ’ in Coll. Works (1966) III 47: You Mr. Lutestring, send me home six yards of that paduasoy, dammee; but harkee, don’t think I ever intend to pay you for it, dammee.at damme!, excl.
‘Serious reflections on the life and death of the late Mr. TC ’ in Coll. Works (1966) III 47: There are three ways of getting into debt; first by pushing a face, as thus, ‘You Mr. Lutestring, send me home six yards of that paduasoy, dammee; but harkee, don’t think I ever intend to pay you for it, dammee.’.at push a face (v.) under face, n.
‘A Reverie at the Boar’s-head-tavern, Eastcheap’ Coll. Works (1966) III 102: Your modern Briton cuts his hair on the crown, and plaisters it with hogs-lard and flour; and this to make him look killing.at killing, adj.
‘The Adventures of a Strolling Player’ in Coll. Works (1966) III 137: Come, the times are dry, and may this be my poison if I ever spent two more pious, stupid months in all my life.at poison, n.
‘Serious reflections on the life and death of the late Mr. T—C— ’ in Coll. Works (1966) III 47: None could build a sconce better than he; so that at last his creditors swore with one accord that The — would be hanged.at build (up) a sconce (v.) under sconce, n.2
‘A Reverie at the Boar’s-head-tavern, Eastcheap’ in Coll. Works (1966) III 100: Sure the woman is dreaming, interrupted I.at sure!, excl.
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 357: That damned bitch fortune, no later than last night, tricked me out of 500.at bitch, n.1
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 347: The two pickers up, or Money-Droppers, [...] bring in Flats or Bubbles.at bubble, n.1
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 347: There are generally four persons concerned in this fraud, one to personate a Sailor, called a Legg Cull, another called the Capper, who always keeps with the Sailor.at capper, n.1
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 349: You are a dab, I will not lay with you.at dab, n.1
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 357: Follow your prescription, cried Nash, No—Egad, if I had, I should have broke my neck.at egad!, excl.
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 347: The two pickers up, or Money-Droppers, [...] bring in Flats or Bubbles.at flat, n.2
Life of Richard Nash in Works (1966) III 360: Here Nash, if I may be permitted the use of a polite and fashionable phrase, was humm’d.at hum, v.1
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 298: He took his bottle with freedom. But he soon found, to use the expression then in fashion, that he was absolutely bitten.at jug-bitten under jug, n.1
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 348: He was gaming just now with a sharping fellow, and lost forty shillings.at sharp, v.
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