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[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 68: Her Mother had sent her worship some ripe medlars, that were as soft as Bran, but if she did not eat them quickly, they would not be worth one Fart.
at not worth a fart, phr.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 24: As two Doctors were walking, an unhappy Baggage emptied a Chamber-pot by chance on their heads.
at baggage, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 253: She had learn’d to bounce and huff with any Bully-Ruffin in the Strand, Holborn, or Covent-Garden.
at bounce, v.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 303: Who is a bold daring Woman? [...] She that dares singly oppose ten Men at the entrance of one breach.
at breach, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 253: She had learn’d to bounce and huff with any Bully-Ruffin in the Strand, Holborn, or Covent-Garden.
at bully-ruffian (n.) under bully, n.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 169: She raised her Bum, and so bepist him, that it ran from the Nape of his Neck down his Back to his Heels.
at bum, n.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 240: Hereupon Carrets fell on his Knees and beg’d his Pardon.
at carrots, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 2: In Whetstone’s Park, he replied; and a Pox on’t, said he, I can find never a Hair in’t.
at hair, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 73: Hang it (says he) I don’t much care.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 258: I was in Holbourn, where I saw two high hot Huffing Hectors (about three-quarters Drunk).
at hector, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 213: I had rather Travel all the World over by Land, than cross that Herring-brook, St. Georges Channel.
at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 258: I was in Holbourn, where I saw two high hot Huffing Hectors (about three-quarters Drunk).
at high, adj.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 258: I was in Holbourn, where I saw two high hot Huffing Hectors (about three-quarters Drunk).
at hot, adj.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 213: One going to a House of Office, fie upon’t, said he, there is an odiferous House indeed.
at house of office (n.) under house, n.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 255: She would put on her own Femal Habit, and sitting in the House as a customary plyer, the Daughter [...] did play Bawd for the Mother, so long till they were apprehended for keeping a disorderly House.
at house, n.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 58: Two notable Gamesters, Mr. Prick and Mr. Cunny.
at Mr, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 72: He reserves the Neck-verse for himself knowing he shall have occasion for it.
at neck verse (n.) under neck, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 10: One Night (Sir Reverence) she did shit-a-Bed; he leaping into it [...] cryed out, O Wife, I am beshit; No, Husband, says she, it is but a Coal drop’d out of your Warming-pan.
at warming pan, n.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 81: The other replyed (espying a Fellow groping a Wench in the Gallery) let us go to the Hand in Placket.
at placket, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 255: She would put on her own Femal Habit, and sitting in the House as a customary plyer, the Daughter [...] did play Bawd for the Mother.
at plier, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 15: A Young Maid [...] was courted by a Person of Quality, whom she understood was Poxt.
at poxed (adj.) under pox, n.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 305: Quacking Doctors and Hangmen, who kill without being called in question.
at quack, adj.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 193: Here lies honest Ralph, as dead as any man living.
at ralph, n.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 2: One Gentleman [...] who had been rambling all Night.
at ramble, v.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 251: She had a Daughter which was more Handsom than Honest, and much more Witty than Wife, in short, both Mother and Daughter were as right as my Leg, and as good as ever twang’d.
at right, adj.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 85: She [a whore] was like a Squirel [...] for she covers her whole Body with her Tail.
at squirrel, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 28: A Farmer being Consumptive, came with his Wife to a Doctor, who advised him to drink Asses milk [...] saying moreover, that if he could not get it the Farmer should come to him; why Husband, said the Wife, doth the Doctor give suck?
at suck, n.1
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 303: Q. Who is a fearful Woman? A. She who claps her Tail between her Legs.
at tail, n.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 147: [These] last words so tickled the Picard with laughter, that he could not [...] do him any further mischief.
at tickled, adj.
[Ire] Head Nugae Venales 251: She had a Daughter which was more Handsom than Honest, and much more Witty than Wife, in short, both Mother and Daughter were as right as my Leg, and as good as ever twang’d.
at as good as ever twanged under twang, v.1
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