1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: At the Ladies’ Club in town I’m called their agreeable Rattle. Rattle, child, is not my real name, but one I ’m known by. My name is Solomons.at agreeable rattle, n.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Jack Slang the horse doctor, Little Aminadab that grinds the music box.at Aminadab, n.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: Ah! could you but see Bet Bouncer of these parts, you might then talk of beauty.at bouncer, n.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: I never saw such a bouncing, swaggering puppy since I was born.at bouncing, adj.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: To me he appears the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue.at brass, n.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act IV: I find him no better than a coxcomb and a bully.at bully, n.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: Have you got any of your — a — what d’ye call it in the house?at what-d’you-call-it, n.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: A very impudent fellow this! but he’s a character, and I’ll humour him.at character, n.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II n.p.: If I’m to have any good, let it come of itself; not to keep dinging it, dinging it into one so [F&H].at ding, v.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act IV: A damned up and down hand, as if it was disguised in liquor.at disguised, adj.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: This pretty smooth dialogue has done for me.at do for, v.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Now, gentlemen, silence is a song. the ’squire is going to knock himself down for a song.at knock down, v.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: This stammer in my address [...] can never permit me to soar above the reach of a milliner’s ’prentice, or one of the duchesses of Drury-lane.at duchess, n.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Ecod, if you mind him, he’ll persuade you that his mother was an alderman, and his aunt a justice of peace.at ecod!, excl.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Now, if I pleased, I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.at grumbletonian, n.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: I shall be confoundedly ridiculous. Yet, hang it! take courage.at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act V: The loud confident creature, that keeps it up with Mrs. Mantrap, and old Miss Biddy Buckskin, till three in the morning?at keep it up (v.) under keep, v.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer 1: Master Hardcastle’s! Lack-a-daisy, my masters, you’re come a deadly deal wrong!at lawks-a-mussy! (excl.) under lawks!, excl.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: There’s Mrs. Mantrap, Lady Betty Blackleg, the countess of Sligo, Mrs. Langhorns, old Miss Biddy Buckskin.at man-trap, n.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: Zounds, here they are! Morrice! Prance! (Exit Hastings).at morris, v.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: My old luck: I never nicked seven that I did not throw ames ace three times following.at nick, v.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: I’m sure you did not treat Miss Hardcastle, that was here a while ago, in this obstropulous manner.at obstropolous, adj.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act V: So if your own horses be ready, you may whip off with cousin.at whip off, v.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: She has been saying a hundred tender things, and setting off her pretty monster as the very pink of perfection.at pink, n.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act V: Rabbit me, but I’d rather ride forty miles after a fox than ten with such varment.at rabbit, v.1
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: I’ll wager the rascals a crown, / They always preach best with a skinful.at skinful, n.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: Consult your glasses, my dear, and then see if, with such a pair of eyes, you want any better sparklers. [...] Does your cousin Con want any jewels in your eyes to set off her beauty?at sparkler, n.
1773 O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: The daughter a tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole.at trapes, v.