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Willy Wood and Greedy Grizzle choose

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[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 14: ‘If you will my rage forgive, / I’ll try to love you while I live.’ / [...] / ‘Well said,’ cry’d Willy — ‘that’s the barber!’.
at that’s the barber under barber, n.1
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 8: Omitting not his Sunday wig, / He strutted forth supremely big.
at big, adv.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 6: But then our blade knew little of the lover’s trade.
at blade, n.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 21: ‘Thou’s stark-mad wrong, my bonny hinny’.
at stark staring bonkers, adj.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 5: To prove me but a stupid ass, / For buckling thus [...] / A romping girl not worth a plack.
at buckle, v.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 4: Until at length a crummy dame / Fann’d up his passion to a flame, / Or rather ’twas the golden dart / Of Mammon prob’d his sordid heart.
at crummy, adj.1
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 11: ‘Odsbobs!’ cry’d Willy — ‘why the deuce / Give me sic scandal and abuse!’.
at deuce, the, phr.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 10: Well might the edge of Grizzle’s tongue / Have shap’d a flint into a dung.
at dung, n.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 10: Well might the edge of Grizzle’s tongue / Have shap’d a flint into a dung.
at flint, n.1
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 29: A new extreme Pervades each fribbling fop.
at fribble, n.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 20: ‘What right, she cry’d, ‘What right had he, / Poor fumbling wretch, to marry me?’.
at fumble, v.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 15: A prudent wife, without a shift, / Will always prove a better gift, / Than yen wi’ gear, and lack of thrift.
at gear, n.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 20: Thou’s stark-mad wrong, my bonny hinny.
at hen, n.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 22: ‘Odsheft! We all know Skipper Clark’.
at ods, n.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 11: ‘Odsbobs!’ cry’d Willy — ‘why the deuce / Give me sic scandal and abuse!’.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 5: To prove me but a stupid ass, / For buckling thus [...] / A romping girl not worth a plack.
at plack, n.
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 3: Perhaps in search of fair renown, / Or thought the profits of a shop / For wane of life might ear a prop.
at prop, n.1
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 9: So don’t be angry — master Stitch.
at stitch, n.1
[UK] ‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 3: [He] then a conceiv’d a careful wife / [...] /Nor car’d he whether old or young / [...] / Nor heeded tho’ his wedded chum (If warm in purse) were deaf and dumb.
at warm, adj.
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