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Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies choose

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[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 102: A coal-black joke is here express’d.
at black joke, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 51: She has been at Portsmouth in the laudable calling of bum-boating, more politely stiled a green-grocer.
at bum-boat, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 58: Poor R-shb--k! how thou art fallen [...] to take up with a taylor, the ninth part of a man – a fellow made up of old measures and list – a cabbage of cloth – a botcher.
at botch, n.1
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 58: ’Tis true you was always remarked for a button-hole.
at buttonhole, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 62: Her little chit chat is not unentertaining.
at chitchat, n.1
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 78: A fine, bouncing, crummy wench.
at crummy, adj.1
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 143: She places this debilitated cull, among the best of her customers.
at cull, n.1
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 143: He is well known for the flogging cull.
at flogging cully, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 80: Her character too, as a housekeeper, has been always decent, and she has had the address to prevent – ‘any knock-me-down doings in her house’.
at doings, n.1
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 80: Her character too, as a housekeeper, has been always decent, and she has had the address to prevent – ‘any knock-me-down doings in her house’.
at knock-me-down, adj.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 77: Miss Alb--tini, alias Dutchy, alias Jones [...] She is Dutch by birth.
at Dutch, adj.2
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 77: Miss Alb--tini, alias Dutchy, alias Jones [...] She is Dutch by birth.
at Dutchy, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 102: She has a favourite man whom she supports [...] He may be stiled a proper flash-man.
at flashman, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 94: This lady [...] will not therefore grant a flying favour under two pounds two.
at flying, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 51: She has been at Portsmouth in the laudable calling of bum-boating, more politely stiled a green-grocer.
at greengrocer, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 80: Her character too, as a housekeeper, has been always decent, and she has had the address to prevent – ‘any knock-me-down doings in her house’.
at house-keeper (n.) under house, n.1
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 102: She makes them pay through the nose, and has at this time a very artful method of screwing the utmost farthing.
at screw, v.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 102: Women [...] generally poison themselves by drams, or throw themselves into consumptions with slip-slops.
at slip-slop, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 66: She is a wretched piece altogether, a nasty, disagreeable, snuffy, ill-made woman.
at snuffy, adj.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 58: Two brothers of the stiff-rumpt sect.
at stiff rump (n.) under stiff, adj.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 11: Mrs. Williams, an old crony of the celebrated tally woman Judith Veale.
at tally-wife, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 56: The only disagreeable thing which attends her, are her teeth, which for want of cleaning, become very often offensive, especially if a rampant young fellow happens to tip her the velvet.
at tip the velvet (v.) under tip, v.3
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 57: A t--d’s as good for a sow as a pancake.
at turd, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 55: She will walk from Charing Cross to the ’Change and back to get a curse (a whore’s curse, we mean 5s. 3d).
at whore’s curse (n.) under whore, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 37: She has assiduously avoided any connection with the mother abbesses, and trades entirely on her own bottom.
at abbess, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 83: She did not want a second invitation [...] to taste the wonderful Tree of Life.
at arbor vitae, n.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 20: Set popes and cardinals agog, / To play with pages at leapfrog.
at play (at)..., v.
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 19: The titillation of nature in her favourite spot below, feelingly calls for the Priapian weapon to receive it in her sheath at its most powerful thrust up to the hilt.
at down below, n.1
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 80: As small but easily stretched passage, whose depth none but the blind boy has liberty to fathom.
at blind boy (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 126: The well shaded borders of the bower of bliss, reared upon two living columns of alabaster.
at bower (of bliss), n.
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