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[UK] Greene James IV IV iv: You calletta, you strumpetta.
at callet, n.
[UK] Greene James IV I i: Haud your clacks, lads, trattle not for thy life, but gather uppe your legs and daunce.
at hold one’s clack (v.) under clack, n.
[UK] Greene James IV I i: Haud your clacks, lads, trattle not for thy life, but gather uppe your legs and daunce.
at clack, n.
[UK] Greene James IV III ii: Ile make garters of thy guttes, thou villaine, if thou enter this office.
at have someone’s guts for garters (v.) under gut, n.
[UK] Greene James IV I i: What tell me, thou skipjack, what art thou?
at skip-jack, n.
[UK] Greene James IV I i: Fall to it; dance, I say, man.
at man, n.
[UK] Greene James IV III i: Go, dispatch, and bring it me to yonder Taverne thou seest; and assure thy selfe thou shalt both have thy skin full of wine, and the rest of the mony.
at skinful, n.
[UK] Greene James IV III i: Therefore must I bid him provide trash, for my Maister is no friend without mony.
at trash, n.
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