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[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 29 July 4/2: Those Abominable Wretches publickly call one another by the Name of Dolly, Molly, Betty [...] &c. and perform such beastly Actions in that Lude House, as is not fit to mention.
at betty, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 29 July 4/2: Those Abominable Wretches publickly call one another by the Name of Dolly, Molly, Betty [...] &c. and perform such beastly Actions in that Lude House, as is not fit to mention.
at dolly, n.1
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 23 Nov. 2/1: But the fellow, so far from thanking him, said ‘Let her sink and be damn’d if she will’.
at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 25 May 3/1: He had for some time liv’d wholly by Gaming, Pimping and Bullying for the Women of the Town.
at bully, v.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 25 May 3/1: Gentleman Harry, a great Gamester, and reputed Guinea Dropper. He had for some time liv’d wholly by Gaming, Pimping and Bullying for the Women of the Town.
at gamester, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 25 May 3/1: Gentleman Harry, a great Gamester, and reputed Guinea Dropper.
at guinea-dropper (n.) under guinea, n.2
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 21 June 3/1-2: Sawney, a Negro Boy of the Captain’s [...] Sawney, the Portuguese Black, and the Mulatto boy, were Acquiited.
at Sawney, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 21 Feb. 3/2: A Strong Water Shop [...] opened in Southwark, with this inscription on the Sign: Drunk for a Penny, Dead Drunk for Two pence.
at dead, adv.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 8 Sept. 2/1: We have had Rumours of War [...] for several Years past, which have all ended in pacifick Smoke.
at smoke, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 9 June 1/3: John Jeremiah Temple, who also goes by the Name of Squire Stward and Squire Shaw, was committed [...] upon a strong Suspicion of Felony.
at squire, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 11 Oct. 3/1: Methinks all Mounsieurs have a clumsy make [...] Queer Phyzzes all!
at mounseer, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 19 Apr. 2/2: Here, Kate, make a good sneaker of Rum Punch.
at sneaker, n.1
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 9 May 4/2: A Plain Dialogue betwen Sir Cortly Jobber, Candidate for the Borough of Guzzledom, and tom tell-Truth, Schoolmaster.
at tom tell-troth (n.) under tom, n.1
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 2 July 1/2: A Fellow half a Natural called Dicky [...] being aggravated by one of them [...] Stabbed him in the Back.
at natural, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 12 Mar. 3/2: Last Saturday William Denny Fox, and Samuel Custins, alias Slip-Gibbet, were brought from Yarmouth, and committed to the County Gaol in this Town.
at slip-gibbet (n.) under slip, v.2
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 21 Mar. 2/4: Whether from passion, love of pow’r or riches, / Women, we see, all love to wear the breeches.
at wear the trousers (v.) under trouser, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 2 Mar. 1/2: A man [...] was taken to be a porter, as he frequently crid out, ‘D— it’.
at damn it!, excl.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 26 Sept. 3/1: To be Sold [...] a Scotch hobby.
at Scotch hobby (n.) under Scotch, adj.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 5 Apr. 4/4: Ah! let me chaunt his merit, wisdom, worth.
at chant, v.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 17 May n.p.: A country pumpkin the great offer heard, / [...] / With cheerfulness the Eighteen pence he paid.
at country pumpkin (n.) under country, adj.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 25 Aug. 3/2: The batchelors [...] were beat hollow by the married men, at the game of cricket here, on Monday.
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 16 Mar. 2/4: A Dwelling [...] containing two front rooms, backhouse, muck bin, privy, shed.
at backhouse (n.) under back, adj.2
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 4 May 2/7: ‘Our respected’ [...] will not condescend to lift his leg at the young yelper.
at yelper, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 16 Sept. 3/7: Less will be consumed in the manufacture of bald-faced whisky [...] than of late years.
at baldface (whisky), n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 13 Jan. 3/6: [He] shot out of his saddle in [...] a regular Jim Crow sort of cir-cum-bend-i-bus in the air.
at circumbendibus, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 5 Dec. 3/3: He may ‘give them the double’ down by the willows, for many a fox has been lost there.
at give someone the double (v.) under double, n.1
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 14 May 1/5: Badly Hodge treats me, / kicks his poor Donkey, / Calls me vulgar name, / Thumping till I’m lame.
at hodge, n.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 10 Feb. 10/5: They began to throw stones [...] at him, and one of them, Moore, was an anointed rascal.
at anointed, adj.
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 6 Feb. 2/6: A young urchin stepped up to a bar, ‘Sixpennyworth of strip-me-naked’, if you please’.
at strip-me-naked, n.1
[UK] Ipswich Jrnl 19 Nov. 2/2: The Conservative meetings were senselessly interupted by ill-mannered Radical roughs, who were ‘paid and beered’ by ill-mannered Radicals.
at beer up (v.) under beer, n.
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