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[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Shepheards Holy Day’ Fancies and Fantasticks (1817) II 364: [as cit. 1648].
at coxcomb, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Shepheards Holy Day’ Fancies and Fantasticks (1817) II 367: Oh ye never heard a sadder, / When a rattleheaded cutter, / Makes his will before supper, / To the tune of the Nooze and the Ladder.
at rattle-head, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith ‘The Shepheards Holy Day’ Fancies and Fantasticks (1817) II 368: He that hammers like a tinker / Kettle musick is a stinker.
at stinker, n.1
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