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[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony III vi: A foutre for such ranging Mawkins.
at foutre, a , n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V v: You would wish that his puny Baker-legs had more Essex; growth in them; for else they would make ill Butchers ware.
at baker-kneed, adj.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V iv: I durst wager my Bever on’t.
at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony III iv: Let me advise you, my Birds of the Capital, that you walk not after my Example.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony IV ii: Doth your Mistress take us, you nitty-napty Rascal, for her Bordella’s Blouses?
at blowse, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony II i: These Bonarobas must sate their appetites with fresh Cates.
at bona roba, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony I i: What a drolling bufflehead is thus.
at bufflehead, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V ii: My wish shall be for all that Puny-pen feather’d Ayry of Buzardisme and Stanielry: That such as They who love to stay to suck their Mammies teat, May live at home, but ne’er finde one to give them Cloathes or Meat.
at buzzard, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V iii: Alemoney! what means my Chicken by that?
at chicken, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V vi: Ile rather go mumble a crust at home: and chuck my old Josalin.
at chuck, v.1
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V iii: Barren, you cods-head!
at cod’s head, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony I ii: Call him in; we will collar him.
at collar, v.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V iii: Thou shalt have anything, my Conny Christobel.
at cony, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony IV iii: Little good does that stud without a Stallion [...] Meanly manned, worse appointed, / Who would do if he knew how, / But, alas! he would, but cannot.
at do, v.1
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony I iii: I [...] got a snap by a Neapolitan Ferret at the very same time.
at ferret, n.1
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V iii: You shall play no more the sharking foist with me, you fumbling Fidler you.
at fiddler, n.1
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V iii: You shall play no more the sharking foist with me, you fumbling Fidler you.
at foist, n.2
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V iii: You shall play no more the sharking foist with me, you fumbling fiddler, you.
at fumble, v.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony V iii: I have been this Goodman Fumblers wife so many years, and he never yet gave me content.
at fumbler, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony II ii: That one [is] Sir Gregory Shapeless, a Mundungo Monopolist, a paltry-penurious-pecking pinchgut.
at pinch-gut, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony II vi: Yea, there goes the hair away.
at hare, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony II v: Defective in his Head-piece here he lies.
at head-piece, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony II vi: Yes, that’s the plague on’t, – lose a light-heel’d trull .
at light-heeled (adj.) under light heels, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony IV vi: Now, you hemp-strings, had you no time to nim us, but when we were upon our visits?
at hemp-string (n.) under hemp, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony III vi: Doubt nothing, my fellow-Knights of Hornsey the Plot is so neatly and nimbly laid.
at knight of Hornsey, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony I iii: That Knight of the Sun who imploy’d me, should have done his errand himself.
at knight of the..., n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony II vi: I must confess Tinder that light-skirt with impetuous heat Sometimes pursu’d me.
at light skirt(s), n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony II iii: The only safe way for these gamesom Macquerellas is to antidate their Conception before their separation.
at mackerel, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony II ii: The next in rank is that mincing madam Julippe.
at madam, n.
[UK] Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony III vi: A foutre for such ranging Mawkins.
at mawkin, n.
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