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[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money D2: That graunde amico [...] Will poll you, I and pill you of your Wife.
at pill and poll, v.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money III ii: And, sirrah Frisco, see you prove no blab.
at blab, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money F2: Goes the case so well signor bottle-nose?
at bottle-nose, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money D: You sullen Elfe, you Callet, Is this the haste you make?
at callet, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money C3: O, you cannot cogge: Goe to, take that.
at cog, v.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money I 2: Old Fornicator, had I my Dagger, Ide breake his Costard.
at costard, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money C 2: Heres such a common hant of Crack-rope boyes.
at crack-rope (n.) under crack, v.2
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money F3: What a pox are you mad or drunke [...] and if you be so cranke, Ile call the Constable.
at crank, adj.1
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money D3: I haue been told, that Duke Humfrie dwelles here, and that he keepes open house.
at dine with Duke Humphrey (v.) under dine, v.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money E4: Oh maister Mouse, [...] it would make any Mouse, Ratte, Catte, or Dogge, laugh to thinke, what sport we shall have.
at ...make a cat laugh under enough to..., phr.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money B: Wilt fadge? What, will it be a match?
at fadge, v.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money A3: And you, forsooth, you flur[t]gill, minion A brat scant folded in the dozens at most.
at flirt-gill (n.) under flirt, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money F2: Hee comes ete vostre, and so foorth, Till he hath foysted in a Brat or two? How then, how then?
at foist, v.1
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money D3: Well good-man, Goose-cap, when thou woest againe, / Thou shalt haue simple ease, for thy loues paine.
at goose-cap (n.) under goose, n.4
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money F3: Farewell and be hang’d Signor.
at hang, v.1
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money in Dodsley X (1875) V ii: I’ll be hanged if you lose that office.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money E4: Well said old honest huddles; here’s a heape Of merrie Lasses.
at heap, n.1
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money C4: If you be so hot upon your dinner, Your best way is to haste Pisaro on.
at hot, adj.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money A4: Why sirra Frisco, Villaine, Loggerhead, where art thou?
at loggerhead, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money G2: Well, what shall we do with this Lubber?
at lubber, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money I 2: I tell thee Mouse, I knew a Wench as nice.
at mouse, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money E4: Now may your knaueries giue the deadliest blow To night-walkers, eaues-droppers, or outlandish loue.
at night walker, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money I 2: Heere’s an old Ferret Pol-cat.
at polecat, n.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money D2: That graunde amico [...] Will poll you, I and pill you of your Wife.
at poll, v.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money C: What a pox care I.
at what a pox! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money C: Sbloud you might haue kept at home and be hangd.
at ’sblood!, excl.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money G: I smell a rat.
at smell a rat (v.) under smell, v.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money I 2: She is a sweete smugge Girle.
at smug, adj.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money F2: These horeson Canniballs, these Philistines, Those tango mongoes shall not rule Ore me, Ile have my will and Ned, or Ile haue none.
at tangle-monger (n.) under tangle, v.
[UK] W. Haughton English-Men For My Money I 2: I tell thee Mouse, I knew a Wench as nice.
at wench, n.
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